Trevor Baylis is campaigning to set up an Academy of Invention, but he鈥檚 got
time to pick up Ingenious Inventions of Domestic Utility by Allen
Bragdon (Harper & Row, 1989). It鈥檚 a book full of 鈥減eculiar, crazy
inventions鈥�, says Baylis. His life and inventions can be read in his
autobiography Clock This (Headline, 2000).
Baylis is also reading The A-Z of Disability by Pat Saunders (Crowood
Press, 1989). He鈥檚 felt strongly about disability since he was a stuntman. Many
friends in that profession became disabled from stunts that went wrong.
Soil mechanics is another favourite鈥攁 legacy of his study of mechanical
and structural engineering, and his work at the Soil Mechanics Laboratory in
West London. On the lighter side, Baylis enjoys books of jokes and Arthur Conan
Doyle鈥檚 Sherlock Holmes adventures.
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