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The DC03, Dyson's second upright vacuum cleaner, released in 1997, was a lightweight (6.9 kg; 15 lb), low profile upright cleaner. It resembled a twin-cylinder version of the DC01, contained one normal cylinder and a second which contained a pair of HEPA filters. The DC03 had a smaller, more compact 700 W motor, and while its suction power was ...
In 2010, Dyson launched legal action against manufacturer Vax, claiming the design of its Mach Zen vacuum cleaner is an infringement of the registered design of its first "bagless" Dyson cylinder vacuum DC02, which dates back to 1994. Dyson also claimed the Chinese-owned rival had "flagrantly copied" Dyson's iconic design. [93]
Sir James Dyson (born 2 May 1947) [2] is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company. [3] [4] He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation.
Dyson was a Unix general-purpose operating system derived from Debian using the illumos kernel, libc, and SMF init system.. Dyson was built from scratch to be as similar to Debian as possible, i.e. most of Debian packages should build on Dyson without changes, and architecture-independent packages (arch all in Debian terms) should be installable without modification.
Dyson says that the report showed that, even from a narrow military point of view, the US was better off not using nuclear weapons. [83] Dyson opposed the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election and The New York Times described him as a political liberal. [7]
The Dyson Airblade is claimed by its manufacturer to dry hands in 10 seconds and to use less electricity than conventional hand dryers. [ 1 ] The first commercially available high-speed, horizontal-wiping air dryer was the Mitsubishi Jet Towel, developed since 1991 and introduced in 1993. [ 3 ]
Turing's Cathedral is Dyson's fourth book. Though Alan Turing is in the title, the book focuses on John von Neumann and his 1946 attempt to build a computer at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (known as the IAS machine, MANIAC I was the same machine later built at Los Alamos Laboratory). Dyson interviewed several people who knew von ...
Cold Water is the debut album from Australian blues and roots musician, Mia Dyson, and was released in May 2003. [1] [2] Cold Water highlights Dyson's song writing and musicianship and a collaboration with Dean Addison and Carl Pannuzzo. [3] Apart from the vocals, Dyson plays electric, baritone, acoustic and lap steel guitars as well as piano.