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Powered by the Dyson digital motor V6. This power-dense motor uses digital pulse technology and a neodymium magnet to spin at up to 110,000 rotations per minute. Its small size means that the machines it powers can also be small, light and powerful. The Dyson brand, as well as various reviews, claim that the V6 can have up to a 20-minute run time.
Dyson Limited, d.b.a Dyson, is a Singaporean–British multinational technology company. [7] Founded in 1991 by James Dyson in Malmesbury, England, the company designs and manufactures household appliances such as vacuum cleaners, air purifiers, hand dryers, bladeless fans, heaters, hair dryers, and lights.
In 1979, James Dyson introduced a portable unit with cyclonic separation, adapting this design from industrial saw mills. [32] He launched his cyclone cleaner first in Japan in the 1980s at a cost of about US$1800 and in 1993 released the Dyson DC01 upright in the UK for £200. Critics expected that people would not buy a vacuum cleaner at ...
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 .
Dieseling or engine run-on is a condition that can occur in spark-plug-ignited, gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, whereby the engine keeps running for a short period after being turned off, drawing fuel through the carburetor, into the engine and igniting it without a spark.
Doctor Miles Bennett Dyson is a character in the sci-fi franchise Terminator. He is the original inventor of the microprocessor which would lead to the development of Skynet , an intelligent computer system intended to control the United States military, but which would later achieve sentience and launch a global war of extermination against ...
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]
A precursor to the concept of Dyson spheres was featured in the 1937 novel Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, [1] in which he described "every solar system... surrounded by a gauze of light-traps, which focused the escaping solar energy for intelligent use"; [30] Dyson got his inspiration from this book and suggested that "Stapledon sphere" would be ...