Posted on 09/16/2017 8:46:16 AM PDT by DFG
Sir James Dyson is lithe, rangy, tanned, beadily alert and, despite never using his own award-winning Supersonic dryer, boasts gloriously fluffy hair. ‘It blows my hair to smithereens and gives too much root uplift,’ he says. This week he was particularly busy, even by his exactingly high standards as Britain’s best-known inventor. On Wednesday, fed up with trying to get politicians to do something about the dire lack of engineers in this country, he opened a university to train them; the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology. And, oh yes, he took on Jean-Claude Juncker. When the European Commission president threatened that Britain would ‘regret Brexit’, Dyson hit back with the power of one of his famous cord-free vacuums.
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Quite a guy!
I still can’t figure out how to use those new Dyson urinals in Heathrow. Make a fool of myself every time....
Not a world traveler nor don’t care to be. I suppose your making a joke based on the dyson hand dryer. I had to do a search. Seems it is a recurring joke.
Wow so glad I read that. Inspiring
I will say this: dyson changed the vacuum industry. Prior to the Dysons... my vacuums lasted one year to 18 months. Name a brand, name a design... planned to break/stop working. I was never hard on them or rough either. I heard about Dyson from a gal pal and purchased one (granted the price was high... but so is replacing one every year). That lasted about 15 years. During that time, vacuum companies made their vacuums with “no loss of suction “ and longer lasting.
Do any Freeper's here know of his latest Project? Electric Car of which he bought the rights to a battery out of Ann Arbor. Watch his latest project...
You just walk by, and the urinals remove it with Patented Cyclonic Action ™
He did pause briefly to celebrate his birthday... But then he was back at the coalface — inventing, innovating and inspiring.I am assuming "back at the coalface" is roughly equivalent to the American idiom "back to the drawing board." Love it, and its association with coal mining, key English and Welsh industries that long pre-dated the Industrial Revolution.
You know, Hoover got a bad rap for causing the Depression and all, but the vacuum cleaner he made was one of the best at the time.
His dam is still working, so he did some things “right”.
I have had a Rainbow for nearly 30 years, that has ameliorated so many of our family's allergy problems. My elderly neighbor had an old Hoover that she was still using in the late 90s, purchased in the early 50s, when products were still made in America.
Best vacuum cleaner ever!
Hoover vacuums suck.
You are so right about “older” products lasting. My Mom had a fridge/freezer (in the garage) she got used in the 1950’s Darn thing was still running.. and WELL... when she passed in 2005.
The EU a few years ago set “green” caps on the amount of power manufacturers could use in household appliances, cutting the power available to consumers in such items as microwaves, irons, toaster ovens, vacuum cleaners, crockpots, hair dryers, electric tea kettles, etc. There has been a huge outcry in the comments sections in British papers, with most observing that you have to use the appliance twice as long to get the desired result — not “green” at all. Further, the EU tried to junk all older appliances on a deadline, costing consumers a lot, just like our switch away from analog tv and incandescent light bulbs. I can imagine that Dyson’s re-engineering costs were substantial.
Now you can buy great working vacuum a Wally World for $50 or less.
I have seen this phenomenon over and over in my friends and family. Losing one's parents young either makes or breaks a person. The ones I have retained in my life went on to found stable families and careers, because they know what not having them is like.
I’ve got a thirty year old Electrolux that’s going strong.
It is an iron clad certainty that a 30 year old vacuum doesn’t come near the suction and cleaning power of a modern vacuum and certainly not even near a dyson
The discussion is whether said vacuum will last more than a year or two, not the price point or sales location.
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