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Subject: Dead Media Working Notes 01.2
Newborn medium: Clockwork Radio
From house127_AT_teleport.com (Trevor Blake)
(((It's not "dead media" but it's too amazing not to think
about. -- bruces)))
Source: Facts paraphrased from memory of 'All Things Considered'
for 31 October 1995 on National Public Radio, USA.
Trevor Bailes (pronounced Bail-Es) of England was
listening to the radio one morning when he heard a news
broadcast on AIDS in Africa. Many people there could not
get health information over radio because they could not
afford batteries. He went into his workshop and produced
a clockwork radio: two minutes of winding produce fourteen
minutes of reception. There is now a factory for
production (staffed entirely by the handicapped) in
Africa, with more planned in other countries.
Bailes said his next project was to do the same for
computers.
Further information most welcome!
- Trevor (no relation) Blake
127 House - An Independent Archive of Systematic Ideology
Post Office Box 2321 Portland OR 97208-2321 United States
house127_AT_teleport.com - http://www.teleport.com/~house127
(((Update added by scarmike_AT_well.com (Seth Carmichael), editor of the
Dead Media Collectors' List)))
Anyone interested in clock-work radios: I have managed to get the contact
info in the UK.
The people you need to contact are called
BAYGEN, and they're at
BAYGEN POWER EUROPE
2ND FLOOR
13 KING HENRY TERRACE
SOVEREIGN CLOSE
LONDON E1 9HE
tel 44 171 702 3247
fax 77 171 702 3248
Musician Brian Eno says:
"The radio is really good by the way. I have a preproduction model which
has a rather noisy spring, but I think that problem is unique to mine.
But do get a radio! You'll love it. I think they are just starting to sell
them in America."
Stay tuned for lots more collectors information and feel free to share
your own!
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