Trevor Baylis
Inventor whose wind-up radio helped spread health message in Africa
Trevor Baylis, who has died aged 80, will be remembered as a pipe-smoking British boffin whose most famous invention, the clockwork radio, was knocked up in his shed. It sold by the million and helped save countless lives in sub-Saharan Africa by making possible health education broadcasts.
After national service he became a salesman for a company that sold free-standing swimming pools. To demonstrate the products, he’d perform comedy diving routines, including one that involved plunging into the water in a woman’s dress — while on fire.
In 1970, he enjoyed a stint as a circus performer in Berlin, where he would be tied up, blindfolded and submerged 10ft underwater while dressed as an…
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