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Adam Hart-Davis

Very Heath Robinson: Stories of His Absurdly Ingenious Inventions

 
Hay Festival 2017, 

A nostalgic look back to the imaginative and often frivolous world of William Heath Robinson, one of the few artists to have given his name to the English language. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression ‘Heath Robinson’ is used to describe ‘any absurdly ingenious and impracticable device of the kind illustrated by this artist’. Writer and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis explores the ingenious contraptions.

Adam Hart-Davis