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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.
Trevor G. Baylis, the inventor of wind up radio technology, was born in Kilburn, London, in 1937 and spent his boyhood in Southall near London. Trevor was always an avid swimmer and by the age of 15 Trevor was swimming competitively for Britain.
Oct 29, 2023 · The ethical innovator. Trevor Baylis is a true gem of British history. Best known for the Trevor Baylis wind-up radio, his story is about more than just clockwork mechanisms. Baylis was born in 1937 in London and got his education at a Middlesex primary school.
- Stewart Hodgson
Mar 5, 2018 · 5 March 2018. Trevor Baylis campaigned to make theft of intellectual property a white-collar crime. The inventor of the wind-up radio, Trevor Baylis, has died aged 80, the...
Mar 7, 2018 · Baylis’s radio illustrates the complexities of balancing environmental, social, ethical and economic decisions in design and is still a useful discussion piece for...
- Tracy Bhamra
Mar 6, 2018 · Trevor Baylis never married, believing that no wife would put up with the disarray in which he liked to work. He strongly believed that Britain was cavalier in its...
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Father of invention;Interview;Trevor Bayliss. 27th February 1998, 12:00am. Gerald Haigh. When Trevor Baylis started telling people about his idea for a clockwork radio all he got back was snooty letters and funny looks. Now, he says, ‘if I talked about a clockwork sausage, people would listen’. Gerald Haigh certainly did.
