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RadioReporter on Twitter: "In 1991, British #inventor Trevor Baylis realized the need for #radio in remote #African communities without electricity -- his response was this, the first wind-up radio, a landmark moment
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Trevor Baylis, inventor of the clockwork radio at Strawberry Hill music festival Stock Photo - Alamy
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