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Clive Sinclair
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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business · English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021) · entrepreneur · engineer · inventor · computer scientist · also Clive Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair, Clive Marles Sinclair, Sir Clive Sinclair, Sinclair
Born 30 July 1940 · Died 16 September 2021 · Q23889
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2026· 3 entries
“s products included the ZX series of computers and his ill-fated C5 electric vehicle. He was still working on his inventions last week”
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“s iPM programme that soon it would be”
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2025· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Clive Sinclair
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2021· 2 entries
Died 2021-09-16.
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On 16 September 2021, Sinclair died aged 81 in London following an illness related to cancer that he had for over a decade.
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2014· 1 entry
Predicted, "Once you start to make machines that are rivalling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it's going to be very difficult for us to survive
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2010· 3 entries
Said that he did not use computers, and preferred using the telephone rather than email
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Sinclair married Angie Bowness, a former dancer at a Stringfellows nightclub and who represented England for Miss Europe 1995
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And incorporated design aspects that the C5 had been panned for, including an open egg-like shell for the rider with a more ergonomic seat, a more powerful motor and larger battery storage, and an effectively lower cost
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1997· 1 entry
Invented the Sinclair X1, which was a radio the size of a 10p coin
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1988· 1 entry
London's National Portrait Gallery purchased a portrait of Sinclair by photographer Simon Lewis for its permanent collection
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1985· 1 entry
And its activities later concentrated on personal transport, including the Zike electric bicycle
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1984· 4 entries
Awarded Mullard Award (1984).
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Intended to compete with business lines of computers from IBM and Apple but at about half their cost
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Including those from British and American companies
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Was honoured by Imperial College London by being made a fellow
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1983· 4 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1983).
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The Sony Watchman had been released in Japan in 1982
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Two years after launching the first of the ZX computers
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Was awarded Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Science by the University of Bath, Heriot-Watt University and University of Warwick
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1980· 1 entry
With Sinclair Research Ltd, producing the Sinclair ZX80 (the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than £100) and in the early 1980s, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Sinclair QL
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1976· 1 entry
But this injection of funds was found to be too late as by this point, other companies were starting to make similar products at lower costs on the market
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1975· 1 entry
Was a significant failure for Sinclair: in addition to being unable to meet demand, the watch itself was found to be inaccurate and difficult to service, and its battery life was too short
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1961· 1 entry
Sinclair registered Sinclair Radionics Ltd
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1959· 1 entry
“s Publishing, Practical transistor receivers Book 1, which appeared in January 1959. It was re-printed late that year and nine times subsequently. His practical stereo handbook was published in June 1959 and reprinted seven times over 14 years. The last book Sinclair wrote as an employee of Bernard”
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1955· 1 entry
And his A-levels and S-levels in physics, pure maths, and applied maths at St George's College, Weybridge
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-07-30.
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1939· 1 entry
Was running his own machine tools business in London, and later worked for the Ministry of Supply
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