| If you have heard of Dyson vacuum cleaners, then | | | | manufacturers didn't want to disturb the cleaner-bag |
| you have heard of James Dyson. Sir James Dyson is | | | | market. In 1991, Dyson received the 1991 International |
| the man who invented the Dual Cyclone bagless | | | | Design Fair prize in Japan. |
| vacuum cleaner. Born in England on May 2, 1947, he is | | | | In 1993, Dyson created his own manufacturing |
| one of the richest men in the world. In 2008, it was | | | | company and opened a factory and research facility in |
| estimated that his work was over £1 billion. His | | | | Malmesbury, Wiltshire. By 2005, Dyson vacuum |
| invention has revolutionized not only the vacuum | | | | cleaners had become the leading brand in the United |
| cleaner world but the appliance world in general. | | | | States by value. |
| One of three children, Dyson was educated at | | | | Dyson researchers created vacuum cleaners with high |
| Gresham's School and was known to excel in long | | | | levels of suction power by adding a small in diameter |
| distance running. Following this, he spent a year at the | | | | cyclone to give the cleaner more centrifugal force. The |
| Byam Shaw School of Art and then studied at the | | | | vacuum sold well because it did not need the user to |
| Royal College of Art. While in school, Dyson studied | | | | continuously replace vacuum bags. In 2005, Dyson |
| furniture to interior design and engineering. In 1968 he | | | | used his earlier invention of the Ballbarrow to update |
| married Deirdre Hindmarsh, with whom he has three | | | | the Dyson vacuum cleaners. He used this invention's |
| children. | | | | concept to create the Dyson Ball, which has been said |
| James Dyson invented many things before he struck | | | | to make the Dyson vacuums more easily |
| gold and became famous for his work with vacuum | | | | maneuvered. |
| cleaners. His first invention was the sea truck, which | | | | Dyson's company tried to expand to include more |
| launched in 1970, and sold for upwards of $500 million. | | | | appliances than just vacuum cleaners. In 2003, Dyson |
| Following this, Dyson worked with modifying | | | | introduced the ContraRotator washing machine to the |
| wheelbarrows, making a Ballbarrow, a wheelbarrow | | | | company's line-up. This machines two rotating drums |
| that used a ball instead of a wheel). He went on to | | | | that move in opposite directions. However, the brightly |
| invent the Trolleyball, a trolley that launched boats, and | | | | colored machines didn't sell well and they are no longer |
| the Wheelboat. | | | | being sold. |
| It was in the 1970s that Dyson started his work with | | | | Most recently, in 2006, Dyson launched a hand dryer |
| vacuum cleaners. He had the idea to use cyclonic | | | | that is fast and hygienic. The Dyson Airblade has an |
| separation for vacuums so that they would not have | | | | air stream at 400 mph. Dyson vacuum cleaners and |
| to lose suction during cleaning. His idea came about | | | | the company's other products are among the most |
| because he was frustrated with his own Hoover | | | | widely known and popular in the world. The company |
| vacuum: debris would fill up and clog the bag and then | | | | only continues to expand, and with its popularity comes |
| the vacuum would lose suction. | | | | imitators. In fact, Dyson has had to sue other |
| In 1983, after five years of development and over | | | | companies for infringement. Still, the sales of the |
| 5,000 prototypes, Dyson launched the G-Force cleaner | | | | company only continue to increase, and Dyson and his |
| in Japan through catalogs. His product wouldn't launch | | | | researchers are still hard at work experimenting with |
| in his native UK because distributors and | | | | new ideas and technologies. |