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Sir James Dyson: “Sometimes just having a good idea isn’t enough”

Sir James Dyson: “Sometimes just having a good idea isn’t enough”

Dyson on: why “industrial invention” is more important than the lightbulb moment…
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Sir Kenneth Grange tells Dyson: “Competition makes us creative”

Sir Kenneth Grange tells Dyson: “Competition makes us creative”

2018 James Dyson Award (JDA) judge, Sir Kenneth Grange explains what he thinks young inventors should design to fix the world’s problems.
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What’s in our “inventive” first issue of 2019? Read on: and find out…

What’s in our “inventive” first issue of 2019? Read on: and find out…

More people imagine that inventors are scruffy-haired kooks cooking up see-through toasters in their garden sheds. But invention is so…
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Dyson on: Intellectual property — Does protecting your ideas matter?

Dyson on: Intellectual property — Does protecting your ideas matter?

Patents matter more than most startups realise. At one point Dyson filed for more intellectual property patents than any other company in…
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Meet Bob. The Singaporean robot that helps Dyson engineers analyse sound

Meet Bob. The Singaporean robot that helps Dyson engineers analyse sound

Tech industry workers are increasingly worried that they are being replaced by robots. But one acoustics expert (named Bob) does a job…
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Actuators, actually

Actuators, actually

Electric motors are amongst the most important and exciting technologies of the past decade. But, while you wouldn’t dream of buying a car…
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Hullavington revisited

Hullavington revisited

Renowned architecture critic, Jonathan Glancey (author of Concorde), explores the curiously mechanical history of Hullavington Airfield…
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Inside Hangar 86: Dyson’s new top-secret home

Inside Hangar 86: Dyson’s new top-secret home

Just before the automotive engineers moved in and its vast hangar doors were for ever closed to the public, we took the opportunity to step…
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#ON02.18 on:Hullavington
Read on: — Explore the incredible history of Hullavington — Dyson’s recently restored airfield

Read on: — Explore the incredible history of Hullavington — Dyson’s recently restored airfield

In the latest issue of Dyson on: we dig a little deeper, unearthing the curiously mechanical past of what may seem to be any other patch…
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The death-defying drama of the 1970 World Aerobatics Championships — history’s forgotten sporting…

The death-defying drama of the 1970 World Aerobatics Championships — history’s forgotten sporting…

American pilot, Art Scholl, took part in the sixth World Aerobatics Championships at Hullavington airfield. He battled the Russians in a…
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Video: Welcome to Dyson’s top-secret electric vehicle hangar

Video: Welcome to Dyson’s top-secret electric vehicle hangar

After months of extensive restoration, this 8o-year-old hangar has finally been repurposed. Nobody outside of Dyson will ever step foot in…
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Interview: Chris Wilkinson, architect

Interview: Chris Wilkinson, architect

Here, we talk to the man giving Dyson room to breathe…
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Why buying an airfield is harder than you’d think…

Why buying an airfield is harder than you’d think…

Buying former military sites in Britain is no mean feat. The process can take years and requires lengthy discussions with the Ministry of…
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The birth of aviation and Britain’s first attempt at human-powered flight

The birth of aviation and Britain’s first attempt at human-powered flight

Technological innovation and risk-taking thrived in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, long before it became the home of Dyson. This is the story of…
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Meet the R.A.F.’s most historic aircraft

Meet the R.A.F.’s most historic aircraft

In 1943, 16 different types of military planes gathered on the runways of Hullavington airfield for a unique picture. We explore the…
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