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Invention: A Life

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Product Number: LP5547
Released: 01 Jul, 2022
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ISBN: #9781004091720
Publisher: W F Howes
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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. Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned around the world. In devoting all his resources to iteratively developing the technology, he risked it all, but out of many failures and setbacks came hard-fought success. His products are not only revolutionary technologies, but design classics. This was a legacy of his time studying at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, when he was inspired by some of the most famous artists, designers and inventors of the era, as well as his engineering heroes such as Frank Whittle and Alec Issigonis. “I left [this book] enlightened about engineering and design, and impressed by Dyson's dogged, trailblazing spirit.” OLIVER SHAH, Sunday Times

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Author(s): James Dyson
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Science & Nature
Imprint: Clipper Large Print
Original Publish Date: 01 Jul, 2022

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