James Dyson

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Sir James Dyson OM CBE (born May 2, 1947 in Cromer ) is a British designer, inventor and entrepreneur. He became known for the bagless vacuum cleaner named after him . Dyson is the founder of the Dyson company . The Forbes magazine ranks him as a self-made billionaire to the 1000 richest people.

Life

Dyson was born in Norfolk in 1947, the son of a classical scholar and grandson of a school principal. He attended Gresham's School in Norfolk and studied furniture and interior design at the Royal College of Art from 1966 to 1970 before turning to engineering .

He has been married to the art teacher Deirdre Hindmarsh since 1968. The children Emily, Jacob and Sam came from this marriage.

He is considered one of the most prominent supporters of Brexit . At the end of 2018, he called for negotiations with the EU to be broken off and for an unregulated Brexit. Shortly afterwards, the entrepreneur came under fire when Dyson Ltd announced in January 2019 that it would relocate its corporate headquarters to Singapore .

honors and awards

Early inventions

Dyson's first product was the Sea truck boat , which he launched in 1970. It was followed by a wheelbarrow that has a ball instead of a wheel, which is supposed to make pushing easier ( ballbarrow ). Then came the trolleyball - a boat cart - and the wheelboat , a vehicle that can reach speeds of up to 40 mph on land and water.

vacuum cleaner

Dyson DC07, an older model of the Dyson vacuum cleaner

Since the suction power of conventional vacuum cleaners decreases with increasing fill level of the dust bag, Dyson designed a vacuum cleaner without a bag in the mid-1980s , which works on the principle of the centrifugal separator . The G force model was introduced in 1990 and immediately licensed by a Japanese company that sold it at $ 2,000 per unit. Dyson founded his own company with a development department in Malmesbury ( Wiltshire ) with the revenue from the license and brought improved successor models onto the market.

In 1993 Dyson launched its first own model, the Dyson DC01. According to our own account, the development up to this point had taken more than 15 years and produced more than 5100 test models. This would correspond to about one new test model per day.

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While his idea was initially rejected by other vacuum cleaner manufacturers, Dyson has now partially overtaken these manufacturers; in early 2005 it was reported that Dyson's company was the market leader in terms of sales in the United States . Meanwhile, other large vacuum cleaner manufacturers have also developed bagless vacuum cleaners. Dyson sued Hoover for patent infringement and was awarded roughly $ 5 million in damages.

More inventions and projects

Another Dyson product was a washing machine with two counter-rotating drums. Production was stopped again.

A special feature of Dyson's products are the eye-catching colors and characteristic design. For example, the cylindrical separation chamber is a central design element in vacuum cleaners.

In 2002 Dyson set about making the optical illusions of the Dutch artist M. C. Escher a reality. The engineer Derek Phillips created a sculpture over the course of a year in which the water appears to flow upwards over four ramps arranged in a square and then falls in waterfalls down to the foot of the next ramp. The work, entitled Wrong Garden , was shown at the Chelsea Flower Show in the spring of 2003 . The installation is based on the fact that water enriched with air bubbles is pumped up to the waterfall under a transparent plexiglass pane, so that the water appears to flow upwards on the ramps, but runs down as a thin film over the plexiglass; what you can see are the air bubbles from the water pumped upwards under the plexiglass.

Autobiography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b James Dyson in the Notable Names Database (English)
  2. ↑ The World's Billionaires - # 743 James Dyson - May 3, 2008, 6:00 PM ET , Forbes.com
  3. ↑ Marcus Theuer, James Dyson - The King of Failures. In: FAZ No. 60, 10./11. March 2012, C3.
  4. ^ Graham Ruddick: Sir James Dyson upbeat about Brexit as company invests in expansion . In: The Guardian . September 13, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Darren Hunt: 'If you walk away they'll come to us!' James Dyson's brilliant argument FOR no deal Brexit. November 13, 2017, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Dyson moving headquarters from UK to Singapore. January 22, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Easyjet's Carolyn McCall and James Dyson on New Year Honors list , BBC, December 30, 2015, accessed January 1, 2016.
  8. ↑ James Dyson, "No Innovator's Dilemma Here: In Praise of Failure," wired.com, April 8, 2011.
  9. ↑ cf. Twin Tumblers , January 31, 2001.
  10. ↑ cf. How does Dyson make water go uphill? James Dyson's uphill water feature has been the striking image of this year's Chelsea Flower Show. But how did he do it? news.bbc.co.uk

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SURNAME Dyson, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dyson, Sir James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British inventor, entrepreneur and artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk , England