David Edward Hugh Jones (20 April 1938 – 19 July 2017) was a British chemist and writer, who - under the pen name Daedalus - was the fictional inventor for DREADCO.

[2] His most notable scientific contribution as Daedalus was possibly his 1966 prediction of hollow carbon molecules,[3] before buckminsterfullerene was made,[4] and long before its synthesizers won a Nobel prize for the discovery of fullerenes.

[5] It is often claimed that the invention of 3D printing was in 1984 by Chuck Hull, but Jones in his Daedalus persona laid out the concept in New Scientist in 1974, 10 years earlier.

Beyond Daedalus, in scientific circles he is known for his study of bicycle stability,[8] his determination of arsenic in Napoleon’s wallpaper,[9] and for having designed and flown on the Space Shuttle a microgravity experiment[10] to grow a chemical garden.

In 2009, a documentary film about his work and inventions, Perpetual Motion Machine,[12] was made and shown at the Newcastle Science Festival 2010.