TY - BOOK AU - Dyson,James TI - Invention: a life through failure SN - 9781471198779 U1 - 609.2 23 PY - 2022///. CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Dyson, James. KW - Dyson Appliances Limited KW - Inventors KW - Biography. KW - Great Britain KW - Businessmen KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Inventions KW - Social aspects KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographies N1 - Originally published: 2021; Includes index N2 - In this 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 besides. Invention: A Life 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. ER -