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 Clock This - Trevor Baylis
 Clock This - Trevor Baylis ... revolutionize the lives of millions. The book charts the life of the eccentric, ingenious and original Trevor Baylis, who spent time as a swimming pool salesman and stuntman before becoming an inventor.Newest Review: ... metal, he came across a rusty box among a mound of rubbish at the end of his street. It contained a Meccano set... Barely ... more ... literate, he was now on his way to becoming an inventor. "I was the type of child my parents warned me not to play with" he says. His mother wouldn't allow his father to tell little Trevor the formula for gunpowder, but with the help of a pal from school and a little experimentation (!!!) he managed to concoct some... Then, with the aid of a length of pipe and a ball-bearing, they managed to successfully KO a neighbour's chimney-pot! In the forty years between knocking off that chimney pot and ...more |
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Clock This - Trevor Baylis: wind-up merchant (882 words)
by - written on 01/07/01 (Very useful, 240 readings)
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In case the name is not familiar to you, Trevor Baylis is the bloke that invented the clockwork radio. He was vegging out in front of the goggle box in September 1991 when he saw a documentary about the spread of AIDS in Africa. Spreading vital information was proving difficult because there are large areas without an electricity supply and where batteries are horribly expensive. The clockwork radio is such a blindingly simple idea that you have to wonder why it hadn't been thought of before. In fact, it had. A patent search revealed that a similar idea had been logged decades earlier, but that was before the transistor had been invented, and powering a ... Read the complete review
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