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Ideas can come out of the blue. But having an idea is different from invention – actually seeing it through. That’s infinitely harder and longer; peppered with failure and seemingly dead ends.

Dyson DC25 BLUEPRINT celebrates the lengths engineers go to in making their inventions a reality. Its components are labeled with details of the tests they underwent and the time it took to develop them.

DC25 BLUEPRINT is available in white, to suggest a prototype developed by SLS (Selective Laser Sintering). It’s our way of honoring the ingenuity and tenacity of our engineering heroes.

Here are the lengths some of the great inventors went to:

EDISON

Most people would have given up. Not Thomas Edison. To find the right material for light bulb filament he developed thousands of prototypes (including human hair, cedar, horn and bamboo). The answer? Carbonized cotton thread.

GOODYEAR

From his makeshift laboratory Charles Goodyear spent nine years developing vulcanized rubber. He tried every conceivable concoction until, quite by chance, he dropped a rubber sample on a hot stove transforming it into a hard, smooth, springy substance now used in almost every walk of life.

BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Richard Buckminster Fuller methodically taught himself structural engineering after failing college. Later, he undertook an exhaustive study of beehives, fishing nets and other ‘networks’, eventually creating his geodesic dome – replicated around the world ever since.