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Milestones:
1974: Strikes out on his own to develop the Ballbarrow. Designs a water-filled plastic garden roller
1977: The Ballbarrow wins the Building Design Innovation Award.
1978: James invents the Trolleyball - a boat launcher with ball wheels.
1978: James stumbles across the idea of a bagless cleaner while renovating his country house
1979: Spends five years developing the cleaner, and builds 5,127 prototypes of the Dual Cyclone™ .
1981: Files U.S. Patent application
1982: James Dyson spends two years trawling, looking for someone to license the product.
1983: Dyson produces his first prototype vacuum cleaner, a pink machine called the G-Force
1985: Dyson takes his product to Japan where he begins to work with company that imports Filofax.
1986: The Japanese start to sell the G-Force
1992: Patent # 5,090,976 (US) issued 1992 for Dual cyclonic vacuum cleaner
1995: The Dyson DC01 becomes the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the UK.
1995: The Dyson Dual Cyclone™ DC02 is launched, and becomes the second highest seller
1996: Launches DC02 Absolute, the first with both HEPA filtration and a bacteria-killing screen.
1997: James Dyson's autobiography 'Against the Odds' is published
2001: New Root Cyclone technology is the most powerful upright vacuum cleaner on the market.
2005: The Dyson DC15 (The Ball™) replaces conventional wheels with a ball.
2002: Duson brings Western Europe's top-selling vacuums to the United States Dyson, James Dyson, cyclonic, vacumm cleaner, dual cyclone, inventor, biography, profile, history, inventor of, history of, who invented, invention of, fascinating facts
