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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.

 

The lecture, which starts at 6.30 for 7pm in room HC005 of the Herbert Collins Building of Southampton Solent University, is free and open to members of the public.

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.

 

Trevor comments:

 

"The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling, but wrong. I am convinced that the collective creative strength generated by lone inventors across the UK is still an untapped economic resource."

 

In addition to his own ongoing innovations and business activities, Trevor Baylis is an inspiring, internationally recognised motivational speaker at seminars and conventions. He has gained a reputation as friend of the underdog, championing the claims of lone inventors and small companies alike in a bid to get ‘UK Plc’ to recognise, value and support their entrepreneurial spirit and enterprising ideas. He also continues to strive for fuller recognition of female inventors.

 

For more information about the WRTI, please visit their website: www.wrti.org.uk|

 

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