James Dyson's first
product, the Sea Truck, was launched in 1970 while he
was studying at the Royal College of Art in London. A
few years later came the award-winning Ballbarrow -
instead of a wheel it had a ball which stopped it
sinking into soft ground. Then there was the Wheelboat
and the Trolleyball. Even the integral hose, seen on
most upright vacuum cleaners, is a Dyson invention. In
1978, 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.
5 years and 5,127 prototypes later, the world's first
cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner arrived.
In June 1993 he opened a
research center and factory near his home in England
to begin making his machine. It even collected the
finest particles of dust (microscopic particles as
small as cigarette smoke) without clogging.
The result was the Dyson Cyclone, the first vacuum
cleaner that didn't lose suction. The original team of
3 Dyson engineers grew to 350 scientists in a new
research center, investigating ways to make products
work better. Determined to create vacuums with even
higher suction, the cyclonics team set to work
developing an entirely new type of cyclone system.
They discovered that spreading higher airflow through
many cyclones generated even higher suction power,
which picked up more dust from the floor. Hence the
Root8Cyclone™ was created.