biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Engineer and inventor, born in Kilburn, NW London, UK. He studied structural engineering at Southall Technical College, and started a successful swimming pool company while working at home on inventions to help the physically handicapped. In 1993 he began work on a clockwork (‘wind-up’) radio that dispensed with batteries and electric power, which could be used by isolated communities where energy resources were scarce or non-existent. His radio is powered through a mechanism whose spring is wound up by hand (a wind-up time of 25 seconds allows a play-back time of 30 minutes). Technical development was provided by the Bristol University Electronics Engineering Department, and by 1996 the radio was being commercially marketed. Since then, it has been in demand globally, notably in rural Africa and by people working in disaster areas. |
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