So many to learn from, difficult to choose.
Mohammed Yunnus ? Started Grameen bank to help the poorest get loans at low or no interest in order to raise chances to get out of poverty.
Amarty Sen ? Economist who showed that poor food distribution causes famine and great loss of life.
Tim Berners Lee ? Created the world wide web shows how joining up knowledge from different bodies and provokes solutions.
So these are giant heros to learn from.
But I think I am going to choose
Trevor Bayliss, the inventor of the wind up radio. Because he saw a need and acted on it with his wonderful tinkering mind.
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Trevor picked up on the
world 'need'. Need is the catalyst for an inventor's 'raison d'être' and
Trevor rose to the occasion. In his workshop at home he experimented
with a hand brace, an electric motor and a small radio. He found that
the brace turning a the motor would act as a generator that would supply
sufficient electricity to power the radio. The addition of a clockwork
mechanism meant that a
spring could be wound up and that as the spring unwound the radio would
play. His first working prototype ran for 14 minutes on a two minute
wind. Trevor had invented a clockwork (windup) radio! "
He did wind up lights too.
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