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Subject: Trevor Baylis
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bozzalad 7.03.18 - 11:21am
Trevor Baylis, the creator of the wind-up radio that he designed to save lives in the developing world, has died at the age of 80.
He was best known for his BayGen clockwork radio, which he started work on in 1991 while watching a documentary about Aids in Africa.

The programme highlighted the value of educational radio programmes in tackling the spread of HIV.

Before the show was over I was into my studio and I managed to get a bark of sound out of an instrument and that was, if you like, my eureka moment, he recalled.

A first working prototype of the radio ran for 14 minutes, enabling people without access to electricity and batteries to listen to live broadcasts
and the electric shoes that charged mobile phones.
RIP * +

shadow27 7.03.18 - 11:27am
I remember seeing a show about him, saw the first Baylis radios rolling off the conveyer belt.. Great inspiring story. * +

sisfreak2017 7.03.18 - 11:30am
Yes saw this on news other day RIP ,
Had a great shed full of inventions that unfortunately never came to surface. * +

bozzalad 7.03.18 - 11:33am
After Mr Baylis appeared with it in 1994 on Tomorrows World on BBC One, it was put into mass production in Cape Town, South Africa, by a company that employed disabled workers to manufacture it.
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shadow27 7.03.18 - 11:36am
Yeah, that's the one. He wanted it to be able to run for half an hour or so, but they kind of had to tinker with the design before it went into mass production. * +

ogdenz 7.03.18 - 11:56am
Is this a wind up? * +

bambi99 7.03.18 - 01:48pm
A good man by what I've read ...his autobiography is call Clock This ...r.I.p Trevor ... * +

ladibud 7.03.18 - 05:47pm

@ bozzalad - 7.03.18 - 11:21am
Trevor Baylis, the creator of the wind-up radio that he designed to save lives in the developing world, has died at the age of 80.
He was best known for his BayGen clockwork radio, which he started work on in 1991 while watching a documentary about Aids in Africa.

The programme highlighted the value of educational radio programmes in tackling the spread of HIV.

Before the show was over I was into my studio and I managed to get a bark of sound out of an instrument and that was, if you like, my eureka moment, he recalled.

A first working prototype of the radio ran for 14 minutes, enabling people without access to electricity and batteries to listen to live broadcasts
and the electric shoes that charged mobile phones.
RIP