Clive Sinclair

For the Somerset Maugham Award-winning author, see Clive Sinclair (author).  Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (born July 30, 1940) is a well-known British entrepreneur and inventor of the world's first 'slim-line' electronic pocket calculator in 1972 (Sinclair Executive) and the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, amongst many other things.
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Noun
1. English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
(synonym) Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
(hypernym) electrical engineer

<person> Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research.
Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios, and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
Planet Sinclair.
["The Sinclair Story", Rodney Dale, pub. Duckworth 1985]
(1998-11-09)