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Sir James Dyson (born Cromer, Norfolk, England, 2 May 1947), is an English industrial designer. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Norfolk (pronounced ) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Greshamâ€™s School is an independent coeducational boarding school at Holt in North Norfolk, England, founded in the year 1555, a member of the HMC. // Big School, 1903, architect Sir John Simpson Greshams School was established at Holt by Sir John Gresham in 1555, during the reign of Queen... The Darwin Building at Kensington Gore The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university in London, England. ... Cromer is a seaside town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. ... Norfolk (pronounced ) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Industrial Design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. ...

He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth in 2008 was said to be £760 million.^[1]. The Dyson DC01 The DC01 was the first product made by Dyson for use in a normal household. ... Regular canister vacuum cleaner for home use. ... A Cyclone Separator Cyclonic separation is a method of removing particulates from an air (or gas) stream without the use of filters. ... Net worth (sometimes net assets) is the total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or company. ...

Biography

Dyson is one of three children, whose father Alec Dyson died of liver cancer in 1956. Dyson was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, from 1956 to 1965, where he excelled in long distance running: " I was quite good at it, not because I was physically good, but because I had more determination. I learned determination from it."^[2]. He then spent one year (1965–1966) at the Byam Shaw School of Art (now the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), and then studied furniture and interior design at the Royal College of Art (1966–1970) before moving into engineering. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, also called hepatoma or hepatocarcinogenesis) is a primary malignancy (cancer) of the liver. ... Greshamâ€™s School is an independent coeducational boarding school at Holt in North Norfolk, England, founded in the year 1555, a member of the HMC. // Big School, 1903, architect Sir John Simpson Greshams School was established at Holt by Sir John Gresham in 1555, during the reign of Queen... Holt is a market town in the county of Norfolk, England. ... Norfolk (pronounced ) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... Central Saint Martins - Southampton Row, Holborn Central Saint Martins (ex-St Martins) in Charing Cross Road. ... For the UK band, see Furniture (band). ... It has been suggested that Interior decoration be merged into this article or section. ... The Darwin Building at Kensington Gore The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university in London, England. ... Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying scientific knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria. ...

Dyson married Deirdre Hindmarsh in 1968. Her salary as an art teacher partly supported him while he developed his vacuum cleaner. The couple have three children: Emily, Jacob and Sam^[3].

Dyson paid £15 million for Dodington Park, a 300-acre Georgian estate in Gloucestershire, close to Chipping Sodbury. He and his wife also have a £3 million chateau in France, and a town house in Chelsea, London^[4]. The Sunday Times Rich List 2008 estimated his fortune at £760m. Dodington Park is a country house and estate in Dodington, Gloucestershire, England. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ... Chipping Sodbury School ROOLZ Chipping Sodbury is a market town in South Gloucestershire, England, founded in the 12th century by William Crassus. ... A château ( French for castle; plural châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of gentry, usually French, with or without fortifications. ... Statue of Thomas More on Cheyne Walk. ...

Dyson was chair of the board of trustees of the Design Museum, "the first in the world to showcase design of the manufactured object", until suddenly resigning in September 2004 ^[5] The museum at Butler's Wharf on the south bank of the Thames in central London had "become a style showcase" instead of "upholding its mission to encourage serious design of the manufactured object", in his words. ^[6] The other trustees included Sir Terence Conran, the museum's founder and Lord Palumbo, the former Arts Council chairman. ^[7] The Design Museum is a museum in Shad Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London. ... Butlers Wharf is the name of a development of flats on Shad Thames, on the south bank of the river Thames just east of Londons Tower Bridge - overlooking both the bridge and St Katherines Dock on the other side of the river. ... The National Theatre is one of the collection of arts buildings that make up the South Bank Centre. ... Central London is a much-used but unofficial and vaguely defined term for the most inner part of London, the capital of England. ... Sir Terence Orby Conran (born in Esher Surrey on October 4, 1931) is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. ... No. ... The Arts Council of Great Britain was a Quango dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Britain. ...

In 1997 Dyson was awarded the Prince Phillip Designers Prize. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the New Year's Honours December 2006. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark), styled HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (born 10 June 1921), is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. ... The dignity of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. ... The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom. ...

Early inventions

The Sea Truck, Dyson's first product, was launched in 1970 whilst he was at the Royal College of Art. Sales of the Sea Truck amount to $500 million. His next product, the Ballbarrow, was a modified version of a wheelbarrow using a ball to replace the wheel. Dyson remained with the idea of a ball, inventing the Trolleyball, a trolley that launched boats. He then designed the Wheelboat which could travel at speeds of 64 km/h on both land and water. The ballbarrow was a type of wheelbarrow designed by James Dyson and released in 1974 in the United Kingdom. ... A common wheelbarrow Older wheelbarrow Wheelbarrows on the Belomorkanal A wheelbarrow is a small one-wheeled, hand-propelled vehicle, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles to the rear. ... Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ...

Vacuum cleaners

In the late 1970s Dyson had the idea of using cyclonic separation to create a vacuum cleaner that wouldn't lose suction as it picked up dirt. He became frustrated with his Hoover Junior’s diminishing performance: dust kept clogging the bag and so it lost suction. The idea of the cyclones came from the spray-finishing room's air filter in his Ballbarrow factory. While partly supported by his art teacher wife's salary, and after five years and 5,127 prototypes, Dyson launched the 'G-Force' cleaner in 1983. Unfortunately, no manufacturer or related distributor would launch his product in the UK as it would disturb the valuable cleaner-bag market, so Dyson launched it in Japan through catalogue sales.^[8] Initially manufactured in bright pink, the G-Force had a selling price of £2,000 (British Equivalent). It won the 1991 International Design Fair prize in Japan. He obtained his first U.S. patent on the idea in 1986 (U.S. Patent 4,593,429 ). Download high resolution version (1144x1570, 312 KB) Dyson vacuum cleaner, model DC07. ... Download high resolution version (1144x1570, 312 KB) Dyson vacuum cleaner, model DC07. ... A Cyclone Separator Cyclonic separation is a method of removing particulates from an air (or gas) stream without the use of filters. ... Regular canister vacuum cleaner for home use. ... The name Hoover can refer to: Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, mining engineer J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover M. Herbert Hoover, an Ohio politician Bob Hoover, legendary airshow and test pilot... For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ...

After failing to sell his invention to the major manufacturers, Dyson set up his own manufacturing company. In June 1993 he opened his research centre and factory in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The product now outsells those of some of the companies that rejected his idea and has become one of the most popular brands in the United Kingdom. In early 2005 it was reported that Dyson cleaners had become the market leaders in the United States by value (though not by number of units sold). Note that the US was introduced to Dyson when Root Cyclone was implemented, so in the US there were no sales of the DC01 - DC05 Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaners. The Dyson Dual Cyclone became the fastest selling vacuum cleaner ever to be made in the UK. , Malmesbury is a south Cotswold town and civil parish in south west England in the county of Wiltshire. ... Not to be confused with Wilshire. ...

Dyson scientists were determined to create vacuum cleaners with even higher suction. This was achieved by adding a smaller diameter cyclone to give greater centrifugal force. This led to a way of getting 45% more suction than a Dual Cyclone and removing more dust, by dividing the air into 8 smaller cyclones, hence the name Root 8Cyclone. Dyson's breakthrough in the UK market, more than 10 years after the initial idea, was through a TV advertising campaign that emphasized that, unlike its rivals, it did not require the continuing purchase of replacement bags. At that time, the UK market for disposable cleaner bags was £100 million. The slogan of 'say goodbye to the bag' proved more attractive to the buying public than a previous emphasis on the suction efficiency that its technology delivers. Ironically, the previous step change in domestic vacuum cleaner design had been the introduction of the disposable bag - users being prepared to pay extra for the convenience of dustless emptying. Centrifugal force (from Latin centrum centre and fugere to flee) is a term which may refer to two different forces which are related to rotation. ...

Following his success the other major manufacturers began to market their own bagless vacuum cleaners. Dyson sued Hoover UK for patent infringement and won around $5 million in damages. His manufacturing plant moved from England to Malaysia, for economic reasons and because of difficulty acquiring land for expansion leaving 800 workers redundant. The company's headquarters and research facilities remain in Malmesbury. Dyson later stated that because of the cost savings from transferring production to Malaysia he was able to invest in R&D at Malmesbury. Dyson employs more people in the UK than he did before the transfer of manufacturing to Malaysia. The Hoover Company started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. ... For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of research and technological development. ...

In 2005 Dyson added the wheel ball from his Ballbarrow concept into a vacuum cleaner, creating the Dyson Ball, claimed to be more manoeuvrable.

Further inventions and creations

In 2002 Dyson created a realisation of the optical illusions depicted in the lithographs of Dutch artist M. C. Escher. Engineer Derek Phillips was able to accomplish the task after a year of work, creating a water sculpture in which the water appears to flow up to the tops of four ramps arranged in a square, before cascading to the bottom of the next ramp. The creation titled Wrong Garden, was displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show in the spring of 2003^[9]. The illusion is accomplished with water containing air bubbles pumped through a chamber underneath the transparent glass ramps to a slit at the top from which the bulk of the water cascades down. This makes it appear that the water is flowing up, when actually a small amount of water diverted from the slit at the top flows back down the ramps in a thin layer. An optical illusion. ... Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface, as well as a method of manufacturing semiconductor and MEMS devices. ... Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17, 1898 â€“ March 27, 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. ... // The Chelsea Flower Show is a garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, England. ...

In 2003 Dyson expanded his "dual cyclone" technology into a new kind of washing machine. Called "dual cylinder" it was unique in having two rotating drums which moved in opposite directions to each other for improved efficiency. It was also distinctive in being branded with the bright pink and purple Dyson colours, rather than the traditional white, grey or black of most other machines. The item did not take off with the public as hoped, and can be seen as the first big failure in Dyson's journey of innovation.

In October 2006 Dyson launched the Dyson Airblade, a fast hygienic hand dryer. The Dyson Digital Motor (DDM) produces an air stream flowing at 400 mph. This unheated air is channeled through a 0.3 millimetre gap, no thicker than an eyelash. A sheet of air acts like an invisible windscreen wiper to wipe moisture from hands leaving them completely dry. The Airblade is said to dry hands completely in just ten seconds. It is 83% more energy efficient than conventional hand dryers on the market. We dont have an article called Hand dryer Start this article Search for Hand dryer in. ... windscreen wiper on a parked car. ...

Quotations

Autobiography

In 1997 Dyson wrote Against The Odds: An Autobiography, co-authored by Giles Coren, ISBN 0-7528-0981-4. Giles Coren (born 1969 in Paddington, London) is a British journalist and broadcaster. ...

Contents

Biography

Early inventions

Vacuum cleaners

Further inventions and creations

Quotations

Autobiography

See also

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