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Radio 4,1 min

Inventor John Taylor: “You can’t sell ideas”

The Life Scientific

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John Taylor on creating his ingenious integrated control system, which is enables kettles to switch off automatically when the water boils. It is now found in in one billion electric kettles worldwide. John Crawshaw Taylor is a prolific inventor who specialises in designing and manufacturing thermostatic controls.

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