INVENTION

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 besidesvention: 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 while 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.