Trevor Baylis

For the cricketer, see Trevor Bayliss.
Trevor Baylis
CBE
Baylis in 2006
Born
Trevor Graham Baylis

(1937-05-13)13 May 1937
Kilburn, London, England
Died5 March 2018(2018-03-05) (aged 80)
Eel Pie Island, Greater London, England
Known forWind-up radio
Awards
Websitewww.trevorbaylisbrands.com

Trevor Graham Baylis CBE (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio. The radio, instead of relying on batteries or external electrical source, is powered by the user winding a crank. This stores energy in a spring which then drives an electrical generator. Baylis invented it in response to the need to communicate information about AIDS to the "people of Africa".[1] He ran a company in his name dedicated to helping inventors to develop and protect their ideas and to find a route to market.[2]

  1. ^ "Trevor Baylis – The Biography of the Inventor of the Clockwork Radio Trevor Baylis CBE".
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