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Who Invented the Vacuum Cleaner?

Like a lot of inventions over the years thefew years before Hubert Booth of London came
invention of the vacuum cleaner is alsoup with the first electric vacuum. The only
surrounded with great debate as to who cameproblem was that the vacuum was so big it was
up with the first vacuum cleaner. We have tostored on the back of a trailer outside the
go as far back as the 1800's to try andhouse and a very long hose was run inside to
understand what people had in their homes anddo the cleaning.As time went by more and more
how they went about cleaning.Firstly we caninventors had a go at coming up with the
trace one of the earliest and better knownultimate cleaner and one which could be used
devices back to 1860 when David Hess came upin the home without much fuss and was
with a way to solve a problem whichportable. Then along came James Spangler in
housewives were having at the time. In those1908 with the first portable suction cleaner.
days people used rugs on the bare woodenThis cleaner proved to be extremely popular
floors to try and keep the dust down to aand for some reason he sold the patent to
minimum.  Of  course  all  the  dustWilliam Hoover. Yes, the man who's name has
become synonymous with house cleaning. The
remained on the rug and the only way off wasfact that the Hoover name stuck was a
to hang the rug and whack it with a stick.testament to how good and popular the early
Shortly after came the rug-beater, whichcleaners were and now nearly 100 years later
resembled a tennis racket.However, it wasthe vacuum cleaner can still be best
only David Hess who thought there must be andescribed a clunky, noisy piece of hardware.
easier way to do the rug cleaning and he came
up with a Carpet Sweeper which had a rotatingAlthough innovative designs such as the
brush with a bellows system which providedDyson and the next generation robotic Roomba
the suction. Is or was this a 'vacuumare starting to give us some idea of what we
cleaner'? The machine also consisted of twocan expect of 21st century vacuum
water  chambers  whichcleaners.Whoever is responsible for the
invention of the vacuum cleaner, of which I
collected the fine dust and particles. Thebelieve there are many, would be proud to
only problem with this invention is thatknow that the principles of their early day
there is no proof it was ever produced.Thendesigns  still  remain  in  vacuum
along came Melville Bissell, who's surname
will sound familiar if you know your vacuumcleaners in millions of homes around the
cleaners, who also came up with a carpetworld.Andrea runs a website devoted to
sweeper that picked up dirt and deposited itproviding news, reviews, articles, best deals
in a pan behind the sweeper head.But iton  top  brand
wasn't until 1899, when what can be described
as the first 'motorized' cleaner, wasvacuums such as Dyson Vacuum Cleaners,
invented by John Thurman and it was anotherMiele, Oreck and much more.



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