Invention

Name: Invention
Brand: Simon & Schuster Ltd
SKU: 9781471198779
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A Life of Learning through Failure

By James Dyson

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Invention by James Dyson is an inspiring account of Dyson's journey from a curious boy to a revolutionary inventor. It details the challenges, failures, and triumphs he faced while developing his iconic vacuum cleaner and other innovative products. This memoir offers a unique insight into the creative process and the determination needed to bring new ideas to life.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by innovative thinking, enjoy real-life success stories, or have an interest in design and engineering. Its inspirational journey of creativity and perseverance may also appeal to aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs.

Invention

The definitive autobiography of James Dyson, the UK's most successful businessman, revealing the secrets of his success and the inspiration behind his inventions.

Description

Dyson has become a byword for great design, brilliant invention and global success. Now, James Dyson, the entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure.

'By continually challenging ourselves, investing in the future and experimenting, we can continue to make the future. We must never stop. Never, for one second become comfortable.' James Dyson

In this spirited autobiography, James Dyson interweaves his own life story with a wider exploration of the importance of invention. On the way, the reader encounters challenging and inspirational characters, radical inventions, adventurous engineering, cultural fads, political gamesmanship, legal battles, and much else besides.

Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure is a 21st century call to arms: creative invention through the research, design, and manufacture of technologies and products empowers not only employees and employers, but the economy at large. The very acts of imagining, shaping, and making things enriches our lives. James Dyson sees people as producers as well as consumers, the inventing and making of things part of a natural instinct. Invention is a lifelong commitment. It has been James Dyson’s life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781471198779

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Illustration: 3 x 8pp colour photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

James Dyson was born in Norfolk in 1947 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London, before joining Rotork to engineer and make the Sea Truck, a high-speed flat-bottomed boat, with Jeremy Fry. Best known for his revolutionary cyclonic vacuum cleaner, his products have been sold around the world, renowned for their innovative technology, design, and efficiency. James believes that engineers can improve the world and he helps them to do so through the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, The James Dyson Foundation, and the annual James Dyson Award.