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.
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Development time: 7.5 months. Result: maximum comfort and torque transmission. Steering feels as light as possible.
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Pneumatic rig stretches hose assembly. Repeated for 100,000 cycles.
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Twists the wand handle and cyclone assembly to test mechanism and strength. Repeated for 100,000 cycles.
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Development time: 16 months. Result: high-impact strength with reduced weight and creep resistance.
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500 cycles in steel drum (rig T004289) simulating random impacts and abnormal situations.
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Tests durability of wire harness, yoke flexi hose and upright kick down mechanism. Articulation repeated for 700,000 cycles.
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Validation test to ensure bristle resistance to pull force of 40N. Average test samples: 98.28N.
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.
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