Don't wind me up....
Rather sad to hear this week of the death of Trevor Bayliss, the British inventor most well-known for the invention of the clockwork radio. He was a true British eccentric, and as such I had a large soft spot for him. Many of the obituaries of Trevor Bayliss have focussed on his financial troubles. The implication in the press has been that patents aren't all that they're cracked up to be, possibly not worth the time and effort, and so on - this BBC obituary notes that his