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  Trevor Baylis
Trevor was born in London in 1937 and brought up in Southall.
Trevor was awarded the Presidential Gold Medal by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and addressed the Conference of Commonwealth Ministers in Botswana for the British Council.
In October 1997 Trevor was awarded the OBE.
www.cmmol.net /trevor_baylis.htm   (370 words)

  
 Trevor Baylis
Trevor G. Baylis 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.
In 1993, Trevor watched a program about the spread of AIDS in Africa, which observed that in many regions radio was the only available means of communication, but the need for batteries or electricity made them too expensive or too difficult to access.
windupradio.com /trevor.htm   (876 words)

  
 The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Trevor is a showman who happens to be a world-famous inventor and superb motivational speaker.
Trevor was an excellent swimmer and swam for Britain at the age of fifteen.
Trevor also became a stunt man and in 1970 became "Rameses 11" performing an underwater escapology act in a Berlin Circus and appearing in numerous TV shows.
www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/TrevorBaylisOBE.htm   (613 words)

  
 Trevor Baylis OBE - Business Speaker, Entrepreneurship Speaker
Trevor Baylis OBE, Innovation Speaker, Entrepreneurship Speaker, Creativity, TV Presenter, After Dinner Speaker, Announcer, Show Host, Trevor was born in 1937 in Kilburn, London, and was brought up in Southall where an education disrupted by the war led to failure at the 11+ exam.
Trevor was born in 1937 in Kilburn, London, and was brought up in Southall where an education disrupted by the war led to failure at the 11+ exam.
Trevor appeared in a Mercury 'One to One' advert which was very well received and continues his tireless work to promote the concept of 'personal power', together with his campaign to establish the Trevor Baylis Foundation to help all inventors.
www.cityspeakersinternational.co.uk /speakers/speaker_trevor_baylis.php   (1242 words)

  
 Trevor Baylis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trevor G. Baylis OBE (born May 13, 1937 in Kilburn, London) is an English inventor.
In the same year Baylis met Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela at a state banquet, and also travelled to Africa with the Dutch Television Service to produce a documentary about his life.
Trevor Baylis Brands plc is based at 133 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey, England, TW9 2PN.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trevor_Baylis   (1062 words)

  
 Wired 9.02: The Greatest Shoe on Earth
Trevor Baylis may be England's most celebrated living inventor, but he's also one hell of a chatterbox.
Baylis' spiel: Put away those plugs, pal, chuck those rechargers and cords - 'cause juicing up will soon be as easy as a walk in the park.
In his role as the nation's favorite uncle, Baylis has played muse, marriage broker, and midwife to a bunch of unlikely commercial successes, from the nondrip teapot to the talking potty, a children's toilet trainer that barks congratulations each time its occupant performs to order.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/9.02/baylis.html   (1022 words)

  
 Inventor Trevor Baylis amongst distinguished individuals honoured by Oxford Brookes University | Oxford Brookes ...
Trevor Baylis OBE - motivational speaker and inventor of the world-famous wind up radio, has received an honorary degree for his contribution to business and entrepreneurship and for being an exemplary role model for students.
Trevor told students at Oxford Brookes' Business School that: "I was lucky because lots of people had invented the wind up radio, but I was the only one to do something about it.
Trevor is President of the European Women of Achievement of Awards and asking the audience to name three famous women inventors, or even three women scientists, he pointed out that: "We need to change the image of women in all fields.
www.brookes.ac.uk /news/2003/september/nr_80_03   (350 words)

  
 BBC - Communicate - Chat Archive
Trevor Baylis: What tends to happen is that an invention climbs on the back of an existing invention.
Trevor Baylis: He or she needs to have an ego as big as a truck, because otherwise you'll get blown away by the first know-all that comes your way.
Trevor Baylis: You must turn to somebody you implicitly trust - a family member perhaps - because he or she will be able to carry out that task on your behalf.
www.bbc.co.uk /communicate/archive/trev_bay/page1.shtml   (705 words)

  
 Trevor Baylis - motivational speaker and inventor
Trevor swam for Britain at the age of fifteen.
Trevor gave a public lecture for the BC in June '98, as part of the Institution of Civil Engineers Appropriate Development Panel programme of events.
In Clock This, Trevor Baylis takes the reader on a jaunt through the mind of an inventor who, inspired by a television documentary about HIV and AIDS in Africa, immediately took to his workshop and set to work on a radio that would work without electricity or batteries.
www.nyt.co.uk /trevor.baylis.htm   (1319 words)

  
 Patents & Inventions - get help from Trevor Baylis Brands
Trevor Baylis Brands plc was incorporated in September 2002 to provide idea filtration and route-to-market services for inventors and innovators thus acting as a source of ideas and inventions for the business community.
Its mission is to ensure the successful commercial exploitation of the pool of ideas and innovations that are to be found in the United Kingdom.
This enables profitable relationships to be formed between inventors and a network of industrial and commercial counterparties who provide the commercial evaluation and exploitation of ideas.
www.trevorbaylisbrands.com /tbb/aboutus/shareholders/intro.asp   (168 words)

  
 BBC - Communicate - Chat Archive
Trevor Baylis: My electric shoes - they are designed to enable a person whilst walking to recharge their mobile phones.
Trevor Baylis: I found from my own experience that the larger the company the less time they tended to have for you.
Trevor Baylis: It is absolutely essential that the government listens to the voice of the lone inventor.
www.bbc.co.uk /communicate/archive/trev_bay/page3.shtml   (650 words)

  
 Leeds Metropolitan University - Summer Graduation 2005, Honorary Doctorates, Trevor Baylis
Trevor Baylis, the internationally successful inventor, who was born and brought up in London, received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Leeds Met on Thursday 14 July at 10.30am.
Trevor Baylis OBE, on the conferment of the award of honorary Doctor of Engineering, said: “Thank you for presenting me with this wonderful award.
An education disrupted by the Second World War lead to Trevor failing his 11 plus exam, but at fifteen he was swimming for Great Britain, and at this time started his first job at the Soil Mechanics Laboratory in Southall, where day-release enabled him to study mechanical and structural engineering at the local technical college.
www.lmu.ac.uk /graduation/summer05/honorary/tbaylis.htm   (588 words)

  
 CNN.com - Will your ideas work? - Dec 8, 2004
Baylis: I don't think this idea is particularly good -- if the items you are sending are fragile or breakable they should be well packed and protected and able to take heavy impact.
Baylis: Both these ideas are OK -- but vehicles come in all shapes and sizes and the onus of specialized vehicles, i.e.
Baylis: Good idea -- as long as the device doesn't interfere with the running of the item it is attached to, providing it is safe and easily cleansed.
www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/12/02/baylis.comments/index.html   (1342 words)

  
 Larson/Baylis Win 505 worlds - Sailing Anarchy Forums
Baylis has the I14 world title in 2002, the 18 world title 2 months later (with Martin and Hamlin) and now the 505 world title with Larson.
Trevor has pointed out to me that he and Morgan were independant of Pegasus Racing, having Waterat build them their own custom Waterat 505, and making their own rig and gear choices, but that they did benefit from working with Pegasus Racing.
Morgan and Trevor have been in and out of the class over the years (I first met Trevor at the 1981 worlds where he crewed for Larry Tuttle and finished 6th).
www.sailinganarchy.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=7773   (2108 words)

  
 TREVOR BAYLIS OBE Biography
At the age of 15 Trevor was swimming for Britain and at 16 he joined the Soil Mechanics Laboratory in Southall where part-time day release enabled him to study mechanical and structural engineering at the local technical college.
Because Trevor was a swimmer he was soon asked to demonstrate swimming in the pools which led to Trevor becoming a professional swimmer, stunt man and entertainer.
October 1997, Trevor was awarded the OBE by The Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace for services to Africa, and he featured in an edition of “This Is Your Life”.
www.normanphillips.co.uk /trevor_baylis_bio.htm   (821 words)

  
 Inventor Trevor Baylis gives a free public lecture
Trevor Baylis OBE, the world famous inventor of the wind-up radio, is the Keynote Speaker at the Wessex Round Table of Inventors (WRTI) AGM on Wednesday, 12 July.
It forms the centrepiece to the July meeting of the WRTI, the Southampton-based club of which Trevor is Patron that includes scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and academics among its membership.
In addition to his own ongoing innovations and business activities, Trevor Baylis is an inspiring, internationally recognised motivational speaker at seminars and conventions.
www.solent.ac.uk /news/newsarchive/2006/July/r74y06.aspx   (272 words)

  
 Tercentenarians, The
The second of four programmes in which Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio, goes behind the scenes of family firms which have been trading for over 300 years.
The third of four programmes in which Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio, goes behind the scenes of family firms which have been trading for over 300 years.
The first of a four-part series in which Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio, goes behind the scenes of family firms which have been trading for over 300 years.
www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/tercentenarians__the.html   (391 words)

  
 Trevor Baylis
Trevor Baylis was born in 1937 in Kilburn, but grew up in Southall.
His father was an engineer who taught him how to use hand tools and he completed an HNC in Mechanical and Structural Engineering at Southall Technical College.
After National Service, where he swam for the Army and Imperial Services, he developed a varied career in the swimming pool business, working as a stunt-man in TV shows for Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, before developing the Clockwork Radio for which he is now famous in the UK and Africa in particular.
www.brunel.ac.uk /about/hongrads/1998/baylis   (101 words)

  
 IP Outreach: World Intellectual Property Day & Trevor Baylis, Inventor: the Clockwork Radio
In 1993 Trevor Baylis, a British former stuntman and under-water escape artist, came up with an idea for a wind-up clockwork radio to meet the needs of isolated communities in developing countries.
Trevor Baylis works closely with the U.K. Patent Office to expose unethical practices in invention promotion companies.
He wants to set up facilities, the Baylis Breakout Rooms, based in universities and research institutions, which would enable inventors to discuss their ideas with experts, lawyers, advisors and potential business partners, safe in the knowledge that their IP will be protected.
www.wipo.int /wipo_magazine/en/2006/03/article_0001.html   (2295 words)

  
 Clock This - Trevor Baylis - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The book charts the life of the eccentric, ingenious and original Trevor Baylis, who spent time as a swimming pool salesman and stuntman before becoming an inventor.
In case the name is not familiar to you, Trevor Baylis is the bloke that invented the clockwork radio.
I guess that by the time the transistor was invented, clockwork had been rendered 'obsolete' by the ubiquitous battery Trevor Baylis was born on May 13th 1937 in Hendon, an only...
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/clock-this-trevor-baylis   (290 words)

  
 The University of Northampton - Trevor Baylis OBE puts a spring into business breakfast
Trevor Baylis, widely accepted as the UK's greatest present day inventor.
Trevor Baylis OBE, inventor of the revolutionary Clockwork Radio, recently entertained an invited audience of 80 senior manufacturing managers at a special business breakfast arranged by The University of Northampton to promote Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs).
As well as the presentation by Trevor, which focussed on the trials and tribulations of inventing, and the importance of patents protection, the event on 15th March highlighted the KTP scheme, a Government-funded initiative helping companies apply The University of Northampton's knowledge and expertise to important business problems.
www.northampton.ac.uk /news/release/?id=UON6043   (357 words)

  
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In Part 1, Dan talks to Trevor about his upbringing in the war an how he was at one time a pretty keen swimmer of all things.
In Part 2, Trevor talks to us about his desire for youngsters to be taught the importance of Intellectual Property.
IP, suggests Trevor, will be the UK's biggest economic advantage against other nations' abilities to mass produce in the manufacturing industries.
www.chatshow.net /Interviews/interview.aspx?interviewID=280   (224 words)

  
 ISAF - International 14 World Championship 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Among the back markers capsizes were so common, especially at the reach and jibing points, that some crews were caught between racing and surviving, and three or four boats were often down at the same time.
That is why the BAYLIS team, though leading the race that could have been their second consecutive win, throttled back a bit while leading KAHN and ALLEN, who earned the victory by continuing to push hard.
The BAYLIS team sailed all week carrying the weight of an OCS starting violation in the first race last Sunday, which left them no room for another serious error.
www.sailing.org /default.asp?ID=j6lFh?uv~   (658 words)

  
 Electronic and Electrical Engineering - News
The inventor of the clockwork radio, Trevor Baylis, met the engineers of tomorrow on a visit to Strathclyde.
The former stuntman and underwater escapologist was in Glasgow to open newly equipped labs in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) and to help students celebrate a major sponsorship agreement with leading components firm, RS.
Mr Baylis was taken on a tour of the department before telling the students about his experiences creating the first windup radio, which is now an essential communications tool in many regions across Africa.
www.eee.strath.ac.uk /news/Trevor_Baylis/default.htm   (536 words)

  
 Baylis to lead Huddersfield Breakout on 18 Feb 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Windup radio inventor, Trevor Baylis, will be one of several big names to appear at Huddersfield Intellectual Property Forum‘s “Brass from Gumption” open day at Kirklees Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street from10am to 4 pm on Friday, 18 February 2005.
Trevor has offered to lead one of his "Baylis breakouts".
A "Baylis breakout" is a brainstorming session with Trevor for people with bright ideas.
www.ideas21.co.uk /476   (315 words)

  
 Speakers Corner - Home
At the age of 15, Trevor swam for Britain and when drafted for National Service as a Physical Training Instructor, he swam for the Army and Imperial Services.
In the same period, Trevor started raising interest in the need for a Royal Academy For Inventors, whilst interest in Trevor’s life also continued and documentaries were made and broadcast by overseas television companies.
Trevor has worked on various TV shows with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and others as a stuntman.
www.speakerscorner.co.uk /speaker/358/trevor-baylis.html   (454 words)

  
 Powergen Challenges Britain’s Garden Shed Inventors to Come Up with Next Big Energy Innovation
A nationwide search to find Britain’s next big thing in energy efficiency is launched by inventor Trevor Baylis and top TV tinkerer Dick Strawbridge.
The overall winner of Powergen EnergyLab will get the opportunity to work with the LIFE incubator – a state of the art support service for the development of clean energy technologies – and receive a package worth up to £50,000 of support and advice to help get their idea into production.
Trevor Baylis said: "I’ve spent a large part of my life developing energy efficient inventions – from the wind up radio to the mobile phone charging shoe.
www.prweb.com /releases/powergen/energylab/prweb428207.htm   (699 words)

  
 DAB Digital Radio Magazine
Trevor Baylis OBE is most famous as the inventor of the clockwork radio.
Trevor's passion for radio stretches back to the 1940s and is being reinvigorated by his latest discovery - DAB digital radio.
Before you know it they'll all be using my wind-up radio technology and you'll have a clockwork digital radio making batteries a thing of the past."
www.ukdigitalradio.com /freemag/issue7/meandmydigitalradio/trevor.asp   (785 words)

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