Wind-up radio, 1992, UK/South Africa

Oropallo, Gabriele (2014) Wind-up radio, 1992, UK/South Africa. In: Iconic designs: 50 stories about 50 things. Bloomsbury, pp. 231-233. ISBN 9780857853516

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The Lifeline Energy wind-up radio is an example of interaction between invention, design, and social-minded enterprise. The inventor Trevor Baylis, who conceived it in 1991, had already developed a series of products for disabled people called Orange Aids (1985) when he began work on a human-powered radio. The story of the development of the device is one of fruitful interplay between seemingly antithetical categories such as low-tech and high-tech, developed and developing world, and philanthropy and venture capitalism.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	wind-up radios; low-energy consumption; human-powered devices; post-colonialism
Subjects:	600 Technology > 680 Manufacture for specific uses 700 The arts; fine & decorative arts 900 History & geography > 960 History of Africa
Department:	The School of Art, Architecture and Design
Depositing User:	Gabriele Oropallo
Date Deposited:	29 Dec 2020 11:22
Last Modified:	29 Dec 2020 11:22
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/6256

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