James Dyson
Sir James Dyson CBE ( born 2 May 1947 in Norfolk ) is a British designer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He was known by the eponymous bagless vacuum cleaner. Dyson is the founder of the company Dyson. Forbes magazine ranks him as a self - made billionaire to the 1000 richest people.
Life
Dyson was born in 1947 in Norfolk, the son of a classical scholar and grandson of a school principal. He attended Gresham 's School in Norfolk and studied from 1966 to 1970 at the Royal College of Art in furniture design and interior design, before turning to the engineering.
He is married to the art teacher Deirdre Hindmarsh since 1968. This marriage produced children Emily, Jacob and Sam.
Honors and Awards
Early inventions
Dyson's first product was the boat Sea truck, which he did in 1970 on the market. There followed a wheelbarrow that has a ball instead of a wheel, which is designed to simplify the Push ( Ballbarrow ). A boat cart - - and the Wheelboat a vehicle that reached by land and water velocities of up to 64 km / h Then the trolley ball emerged.
Vacuum cleaner
After Dyson had observed that in conventional vacuum cleaners, the suction power decreases with increasing level of the dust bag, he constructed the mid 1980s, a bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of the centrifugal separator. The model G force was introduced in 1990 and immediately licensed by a Japanese company that sold it at a price of 2000 U.S. dollars per unit. Dyson founded the royalties own company with development department in Malmesbury ( Wiltshire) and brought improved successor models to the market.
In 1993 Dyson launched its first own model, the Dyson DC01 on the market. The development had lasted more than 15 years by this time according to its own representation and produced more than 5100 test models. However, this would about a new experimental model per day!
While his idea was initially rejected by the other vacuum cleaner manufacturers, Dyson has this manufacturer lapped partially today; so in early 2005, it was reported Dyson's company was in the United States, the market leader in terms of sales. Meanwhile, other large vacuum cleaner bagless vacuum cleaner manufacturers have developed; Dyson sued Hoover on patent infringement and got about five million dollars in damages awarded.
In 2002, we relocated partly for reasons of cost, partly because of difficulties to be able to enlarge the factory, from the UK to Malaysia. Management and development remained at the old site.
Other inventions and projects
Another product of a washing machine was Dyson with two counter -rotating drums. Production was stopped again.
A special feature of Dyson's products are the eye-catching colors and design characteristics. For example, in vacuum cleaners, the cylindrical deposition chamber a central design element.
In 2002, Dyson set about to make a reality the optical illusions of the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. The Engineer Derek Phillips created in the course of a year, a sculpture in which the water apparently four arranged in a square ramp flows upward and then falls in waterfalls down to the foot of the next ramp. The work titled Wrong Garden was shown in the spring of 2003 at the Chelsea Flower Show. The installation is based on that enriched air bubbles of water with a transparent Plexiglas pumped up to the waterfall so that the water flows on the ramps seemingly upward, but as a thin film runs through the Plexiglas down; what you see are the bubbles of the pumped up water under the Plexiglas.
Loose rotor fan
In March 2010, Dyson introduced as his latest invention front of a fan with no visible rotor blades. The product marketed under the name Air Multiplier device is a standalone unit. The air stream is generated by air sucked by a fan and hidden in the base of conventional blown or pressed through a fine slit along a ring-shaped plastic casing. By the geometry of the air flow is a type of air tube forms. The wingless fan is louder than a comparable conventional fan.
Toilet Hand Dryer Airblade
Dyson has developed a hand dryer that came in 2006 under the name Airblade on the market. This dryer is distinguished in that it gives off no warm air, but warm air purified environment pressed by two fine air passages. It keeps for a few seconds both hands down in the open-sided wall mounted unit and then pull the hands up and out. Water remains on the hands are blown off by doing the hard air flow. The process takes only a few seconds. Dyson advertises, the device with a high energy savings compared to conventional hot -air hand dryers, since the electrical heating of the air stream is required.
Autobiography
- Giles Coren with: Against All Odds: An Autobiography, 1997, ISBN 0-7528-0981-4. German: Striker stagnation. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09460-0.