Dyson Ltd is a British technology company, founded in 1992 by Sir James Dyson, which designs and manufactures vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, bladeless fans and heaters. It sells machines in over 50 countries and employs 3,100 people worldwide. The company prides itself on engineering products which work in different and better ways than their predecessors. Dyson’s founder, James Dyson, famously created 5,127 prototypes of his first machine, the vacuum cleaner, in a workshop behind his house, before developing one that he considered worked perfectly, the DC01. In 1971, Dyson discovered a... number of problems with the conventional wheelbarrow he was using while renovating his property. He found that the wheel sunk into the mud, was unstable and was prone to punctures; the steel body caused damage to paint work and became covered with dried cement. These problems got James thinking about improvements, and by 1974 James had a fibreglass prototype of a barrow with a ball instead of a wheel. The Ballbarrow was born. Later that year James bought a Hoover Junior vacuum cleaner. The Hoover became clogged quickly and lost suction over time.
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