1999 - At first just gyroscopes...
Gyroscope.com has been in existence since 1999, after being inspired to set up a web site
dedicated to all things gyroscope after an attempt to purchase a single toy gyroscope.
This proved to be almost frustratingly impossible, the only option was to purchase in quantity!
Still we were sufficiently interested in acquiring the toy that we ordered a lot! We then
decided to offer the remainder for sale over the internet.
It seemed that there were other people out there that were interested in purchasing gyroscopes
of all types and pretty soon we were receiving requests & enquiries from all over the world.
Several enquiries were related to a particular model that was no longer in manufacture,
demand was sufficient that the decision was made to design & produce the item ourselves;
to our delight it was extremely well received and stock sold out immediately.
Over the next few years we concentrated on bringing together the largest collection of
purchasable gyroscopes anywhere in the world, some of the items are exclusive to the website.
2005 - Hard to find products
Sometimes the world overlooks an invention, sometimes it is ahead of its time or just not
given enough time. Despite it being really good! There appears to be an abundant amount
of inventions that have not quite got their prominence. Thankfully some of these have
been rediscovered, developed further here, prototyped and turned into products that you
can buy from our website. The Tesla turbine is an example of such a product and which we have now made
a few versions of.
2012 - Our very own factory
In 2012 we purchased an English engineering firm (Kontax Engineering Ltd) we had been working with for a number of years.
This now enables us to conceive a product, design it, prototype, go into production and sell
the product directly to the customer. Allowing for rapid development and the ability to respond
and improve products based on customer feedback.
2019 to 2024 - Less suppliers. New products.
After building good relationships with small niche market suppliers over a couple of decades, many of those suppliers
struggled post-covid. New sales channels, changing spending habbits, trade friction, cost increases where just a few factors.
Some suppliers reduced their product range, closed or froze production. So some products were dropped and we created more of our own products.
2025 - Merger
13 years after buying Kontax Engineering Ltd we decided to merge the two firms together.
Kontax Engineering Ltd + Brightfusion Ltd = Kon-fusion ? Or maybe Bright-tax ?
In the end we decided to drop Brightfusion Ltd and trade under Kontax Engineering Ltd.
Behind the scenes nothing changed. Same people.
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