Inventions
for the Modern World
How
would you use a radio or a telephone if you had no electricity or batteries?
These problems bothered British inventor Trevor Baylis. So in 1996 he invented
a wind up radio. It doesn’t need electricity or batteries. You wind it up by
hand it plays for about an hour. Then, you wind it up again. Today it’s
manufactured in South Africa.
Then
in 1996, Baylis invented a mobile telephone that is powered by shoes. The shoes
contain a small battery that is powered when you walk. This battery is
connected to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions can bring modern
communications to all parts of the world.
Baylis
doesn’t have a university degree in engineering. In fact, he left high school
before graduating. He just loves making things to help people. He never knows
when ideas will come to him. He got the idea for radio while watching TV. The
idea for the telephone came to him in a dream.
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