Failure is the true mother of invention, the British tech pioneer says, and we need to stop fearing it.
When I arrive, he’s busy tinkering in his shed. But this is no ordinary garden shed – as befits Britain’s best-known inventor, James Dyson has test rigs, hoists, machine tools and other paraphernalia set up in a giant aircraft hangar.
In fact, he bought the entire airfield in Wiltshire in southwest England to give him the space to assemble things and pull them apart.