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Invention : a life  Cover Image Book Book

Invention : a life / James Dyson.

Dyson, James, (author.).

Summary:

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in 'Invention: A Life'.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982188429 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 337 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Dyson, James.
Dyson Appliances Limited.
Inventors > Great Britain > Biography.
Businessmen > Great Britain > Biography.
Entrepreneurship > Great Brtiain.
Electric household appliances industry > Great Britain.
Vacuum cleaners > Great Britain > History.
Genre: Biographies.
Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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James Dyson was born in Norfolk in 1947 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London, before joining Rotork to engineer and make the Sea Truck, a high-speed flat-bottomed boat, with Jeremy Fry. Best known for his revolutionary cyclonic vacuum cleaner, his products have been sold around the world, renowned for their innovative technology, design, and efficiency. James believes that engineers can improve the world and he helps them to do so through the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, The James Dyson Foundation, and the annual James Dyson Award.


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