Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio, has died aged 80

[Aeolienne]

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One interesting fact about Trevor Baylis: he lived on Eel Pie Island in the middle of the River Thames at Twickenham. Another resident of this island was William Hartnell in the 1960s. Did their paths cross? Who knows...

 

[Aeolienne]

More about Eel Pie Island and Trevor Baylis:
A strange life on London's River Thames

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

I think I read he messed up the patent application.

So someone else made a fortune from his idea.