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Second to only Rolls Royce, inventor James Dyson is the best-known remaining example of success in British manufacturing.

James Dyson is one of the most successful product designers in the UK in recent years. In the 1970’s while vacuuming his home, James Dyson realized his bag vacuum cleaner was constantly losing suction power. He noticed how dust quickly clogged the pores of the bag and blocked the airflow, so that suction dropped rapidly. He set to work to solve this problem.

Rumor has it that Dyson came across the idea of the cyclone for his vacuum cleaner from looking at the sawdust collecting system at a sawmill. He decided to investigate if the principle could be used within a vacuum cleaner.

Thousand of prototypes were created: 5 127 to be exact. Dyson maintains that this help him to uncover subtle design flaws you would realize with a computer simulation. 5 years later, the world’s first cyclonic bag-less vacuum cleaner arrived.

In 1986, eight years after his original breakthrough, Dyson licensed his designs to a Japanese company. The deal didn’t give him a significant cut of the annual $20 million in sales, but it was enough to keep him going while he looked for a U.S. manufacturer.

In 1993 Dyson opened his research centre and factory in Wiltshire, UK and developed the DCO1. It became the fastest selling vacuum cleaner ever to be made in the UK, and his company and its distinctive range of boldly-coloured products became Europe’s fastest growing manufacturer. It didn’t take long for the major vacuum manufacturers began to market copycat bagless vacuum cleaners, and eventually Dyson sued Hoover UK for patent infringement and won around $5 million in damages.

In 2000 Dyson expanded his appliance range to include a washing machine. Called ContraRotator it had two rotating drums which moved in opposite directions. The range was coloured in the usual bright Dyson colours, rather than the traditional white, grey or black of most other machines.

In 2006 Dyson launched the Dyson Airblade, a fast hand dryer. The motor produces an air stream flowing at 400 mph. This unheated air is channeled through a 0.3 millimetre gap. A sheet of air acts like an invisible windscreen wiper to wipe moisture from hands.

James Dyson’s inventions have made him a fortune reportedly worth around £800 million or approximately 1.25 billion US.

Dyson products are now on display at museums across the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.