Who invented dyson hoovers

Easier said than done, of course. Dyson would spend the next 15 years perfecting his design, a process that resulted in 5, different prototypes. Those years were tough for the fledgling inventor and his family. Still, Dyson knew he had something potentially great on his hands and pushed on.

I still needed to manufacture it and go sell it. You know the one. Clear canister where you could see all the dust and dirt accumulate. The famous one.

He pointed me to the welding gear and said, "Go do it. He said, "You do it like this," and lit the acetylene torch, and then he buggered off to work. Here I was, this long-haired art student with a shiny purple raincoat bought on King's Road, and he was letting me make mistakes and learn things myself. After we finished the prototype, I said, "Now what? Soon, we were selling boats a year. I started working on the vacuum cleaner in I'd purchased what claimed to be the most powerful vacuum cleaner.

But it was essentially useless. Rather than sucking up the dirt, it pushed it around the room. I'd seen an industrial sawmill, which uses something called a cyclonic separator to remove dust from the air.

I thought the same principle of separation might work on a vacuum cleaner. I rigged up a quick prototype, and it did. I became obsessed. It took five years of doing nothing but making and testing prototypes. My wife supported us by teaching art. She was wonderful. But most other people thought I was mad. When the vacuum was ready, the first thing I did was to show it to the makers of domestic appliances.

They didn't want it. I licensed it to Amway in the U. So I decided to become a manufacturer myself. The first sale I made was to a mail-order catalog. I sat with the buyer all day.

Right at the end, he said, "It's an interesting vacuum cleaner, but why should I take a Hoover or an Electrolux out of the catalog to put in yours?

I said, "Because your catalog is boring. And then another catalog took it because I was in the first one. And then I got into one or two little stores. I usually sell from the point of view of frustration, hoping that other people feel the same way.

I got irritated when it started losing suction and tore the bag open. Its pores were clogged with dust: a fundamental flaw, but valuable to the industry because it meant consumers continually had to buy new bags. Then one day I was at a local sawmill and noticed how the sawdust was being removed from the air by large industrial cyclones.

My engineering instinct kicked in. Could that work on a smaller scale? So I created a cardboard prototype and strapped it on to my machine. Fifteen years and 5, prototypes later, I had a bagless vacuum cleaner. Then I received a call from a Japanese company, Apex.

I got on a flight and, after several all-night meetings, signed a deal. In , production of what we called G-force began.