Clive Sinclair: The Anatomy Of An Inventor

The Anatomy Of An Inventor was a BBC Horizon documentary in 1989 focusing on the technology inventor Clive Sinclair. Sinclair had been inventing since 1961 and had many success and failures along the way. The fascinating side to the story is a man who simply loved to invent, the process of formulating an idea and seeing it coming to fruition. Also as Sinclair's field of invention was computer electronics in the film we get a look back at part of the history of modern computing. Sinclair had success with products like the first pocket calculator and the ZX Spectrum home computer and failures like his Sinclair C5 battery powered car. By the time the documentary was made he had sold the computer section Sinclair Research to Amstrad and would later focus again on transport.