James Dyson sneaked into a sawmill to measure an industrial cyclone
Sir James Dyson · Dyson: James Dyson (2018) · Jul 22, 2019 · at 13:51
James Dyson, founder of Dyson, explains how he researched industrial cyclone collectors to solve epoxy overspray issues at his Ballbarrow factory.
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“So I went and copied one of those that I saw on a local sawmill. I climbed over the wall at night and took some sort of measurements and examined it. And we came back and over two weekends we made one that was about 30 foot high.”
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