GK
INVENTIONS
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Catseyes
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The Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner
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Bayliss’s radio
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Velcro
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Windshield wipers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trevor Baylis: He invented gizmos, including the windup radio and shoes that generate electricity. By the time he turned 50, Trevor Baylis had led a varied life. He swam for Great Britain at the age of 15 and missed qualifying for the 1956 Olympics by only one-tenth of a second.
Detailed explanation-2: -Trevor Graham Baylis CBE (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio. The radio, instead of relying on batteries or external electrical source, is powered by the user winding a crank. This stores energy in a spring which then drives an electrical generator.
Detailed explanation-3: -Trevor Baylis, a tinkerer who turned to old-school technology in an effort to disseminate accurate information about AIDS through Africa, inventing a portable radio powered by hand cranking, died on Monday at his home on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, near London. He was 80.