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How would you use a radio or a telephone if
you had no electricity or batteries? This 1bothered(使烦恼)British inventor Trevor
Baylis. Then he made a wind-up(装有发条的)radio. It doesn't
need2or
batteries. You wind it up3 hand. It plays for about an hour. Then, you
wind it up again. Today it's 4 in South Africa.
Then in 1999, Baylis invented a mobile phone
that is powered by5. The shoes contain(含有)a small battery that is powered
when you 6. This battery is7 to a mobile phone. These two simple inventions
can bring modern communication to all parts of the world.
Baylis didn't have a university degree in
engineering. In 8he
left high school before graduating(毕业). He just loved9 things
to help people. He never knew10 ideas would come to him. The idea for the
telephone came to him in a dream.