James Dyson
You know the feeling when some everyday product lets you down. You wish someone could solve the problem. James Dyson does that. He is a man who likes to make things work better. With his research team he has developed products that have achieved sales of over $10 billion worldwide.
Early products by James Dyson
James Dyson's first product, the Sea Truck, was launched in 1970 while he was studying at the Royal College of Art in London. A few years later came the award-winning Ballbarrow - instead of a wheel it had a ball which stopped it sinking into soft ground. Then there was the Wheelboat and the Trolleyball. Even the integral hose, seen on most upright vacuum cleaners, is a Dyson invention.
A new idea
In 1978, James Dyson noticed how the air filter in the Ballbarrow spray-finishing room was constantly clogging with powder particles (just like a vacuum cleaner bag clogs with dust). So he designed and built an industrial cyclone tower, which removed the powder particles by exerting centrifugal forces greater than 100,000 times those of gravity. Could the same principle work in a vacuum cleaner? James Dyson set to work. 5 years and 5,127 prototypes later, the world's first bagless vacuum cleaner from Dyson arrived.
The $2,000 vacuum cleaner
It may sound like taking coals to Newcastle, but James Dyson's bagless vacuum cleaner was first sold in Japan, the home of high-tech products. Known as the 'G Force', it won the 1991 International Design Fair prize in Japan. The Japanese were so impressed by its performance that the G Force became a status symbol, selling for $2,000 a piece!
The first Dyson
So James Dyson decided to manufacture his own vacuum cleaner. In June 1993 he opened a research center and factory near his home in England to begin making his machine. It even collected the finest particles of dust (microscopic particles as small as cigarette smoke) without clogging. The result was the Dyson Cyclone, the first vacuum cleaner that didn't lose suction.
Dyson Dual Cyclone™
The Dual Cyclone™ system is the first breakthrough in technology since the invention of the vacuum cleaner in 1901.
The traditional bag has been replaced by two cyclone chambers which cannot clog with dust. After the Dyson's outer cyclone has spun out the larger dust and dirt particles, the inner cyclone accelerates the air still further to remove the minute health-threatening particles.
James Dyson has proved a better product can be made at a price people can afford. As a result the Dyson Dual Cyclone™ became the fastest selling vacuum cleaner ever to be made in the UK.
