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GAME CHANGER<br />
More than 6,000 people are employed with the company<br />
worldwide, a third of whom are engineers.<br />
Where It All Started<br />
Born in Cromer, Norfolk on 2 May 1947,<br />
Dyson is the youngest of three children.<br />
Getting his early education at Gresham’s<br />
School, where his father taught, Dyson went<br />
on to study art at the Byam Shaw School of<br />
Art, and then the Royal College of Art. It was<br />
here that he delved into industrial design, and<br />
helped design the Mark 3 of the Sea Truck,<br />
a landing craft manufactured by Rotork<br />
Marine. He then reinvented the wheelbarrow<br />
by replacing the wheel with a ball for better<br />
maneuverability, and called it the Ballbarrow.<br />
Continuing work related to water crafts,<br />
Dyson also invented the Trolleyball to launch<br />
boats, and the amphibious Wheelboat.<br />
Sometime in 1978, Dyson was becoming<br />
very frustrated with the vacuum cleaner<br />
that he was using. Its dust bag had become<br />
irreparably clogged and seemed to be losing<br />
suction power. Inspired by a local sawmill that<br />
used cyclone technology to separate sawdust<br />
particles from the air, Dyson got to work on a<br />
vacuum cleaner that operated the same way.<br />
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