| With the invention of Carpet, the invention of a | | | | pump system. The pumping device sucks up air from |
| Carpet cleaning machine was not far away. The first | | | | a house, which in turn sucks up the dust and dirt |
| hand held Carpet cleaning machine was designed and | | | | from anything in front of the house opening. Inside |
| tested in the 1860's in Chicago, while the first power | | | | the vacuum cleaner is a filtering system that collects |
| operated vacuum machine was invented in the early | | | | the dust and dirt that can later be placed in the |
| 1900's by an English man named H. Cecil Booth. | | | | garbage outside. |
| At around the same time as H. Cecil Booth's | | | | Currently there are seven main types of vacuum |
| invention, a man by the name of James Murray | | | | cleaners; the upright vacuum cleaner, the Canister |
| Spangler came up with his own vacuum cleaner | | | | vacuum cleaner, the back-pack style vacuum cleaner, |
| invention, which he later sold to his cousin Hoover. As | | | | the built-in vacuum cleaner, the robotic vacuum |
| you well know, Hoover has become one of the most | | | | cleaner, the hand held vacuum cleaner and the wet |
| prominent names in the vacuum cleaning machine | | | | dry vacuum cleaners. These different types of |
| business and is certain one of the most popular | | | | vacuum cleaners are available in different styles, sizes |
| household names in the western world. | | | | and have various voltage/power potentials. |
| The vacuum cleaner was heralded as a blessing in | | | | One of the most significant developments in carpet |
| disguise for many housewives, whose weekly task it | | | | cleaning machines has been the invention of the |
| was to keep the house clean. Initially, vacuum | | | | cyclone carpet cleaner. Unlike previous carpet cleaning |
| cleaners were only capable of sucking up dust and | | | | machines, the cyclone carpet cleaner collects dust |
| dirt, but with modern technology inventors were | | | | and dirt in a large cylinder type container. The cyclone |
| soon capable of designing a wet-cleaner that can | | | | carpet cleaner operates using a central air force and |
| steam carpets and kill germs. | | | | a number of filters. These filters filter the dust and |
| Carpet was capable of covering the floor of a house, | | | | dirt into stages, so that the air being sucked up into |
| flat, or bungalow and keeping peoples feet warm in | | | | the cylinder container can then be cleaned and |
| winter. Initially, people needed to sweep their floors, | | | | re-released into the air through a central outlet. |
| or carpets, but with the invention of the vacuum | | | | Robotic vacuum cleaners are also a relatively new |
| cleaner, people could easily detract the dirt and dust | | | | invention, enabling the carpet to be cleaned by a |
| from their carpets with less effort. It was also | | | | carpet cleaning machine without the need of people |
| realized that businesses, apartments and corporations | | | | power. Using a simple control mechanisms, the robotic |
| would need someone to clean their carpets too, so | | | | vacuum cleaner can navigate its way around the floor |
| the invention of the commercial carpet cleaners was | | | | of an apartment, or home, cleaning dust and particles |
| next. | | | | from the floor and then return to its docking station |
| Essentially, the vacuum cleaner operates using a | | | | for re-charging. |