| Cleaning the areas that we live and work in | | | | the beater bar that came along with it. This |
| has always been part of our lives. Even | | | | greatly increased the cleaning efficiency and |
| people living in caves have found ways to | | | | is use by most upright vacuum cleaners. |
| keep their living areas relative clean. The | | | | |
| first means of cleaning were through the use | | | | From 1926 to the present, Hoover vacuum |
| of twigs and sticks. With the many chores | | | | cleaners have been through many model changes |
| that occupy a common homeowner, inventions | | | | to increase the dirt removal efficiency by |
| were continually being introduced to make the | | | | increasing its suction power. New designs in |
| simple chore of house cleaning less tedious. | | | | vacuum cleaner bags also helped cleaning |
| Who would have thought that years later a | | | | efficiency. This allowed homeowner to easily |
| machine that was intentionally used for | | | | dispose of the collected dust and then |
| sweeping the floor would be manufactured in | | | | reattaching a new one to continue their |
| all shapes and sizes? | | | | cleaning task at hand. |
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| The first vacuum cleaners invented weighed | | | | James Dyson's vacuum design was originally |
| almost a hundred pounds and were too big to | | | | offered to the Hoover Company for |
| easily move around. The later improved | | | | manufacturing and product release, however, |
| designs introduced more choices. In the early | | | | the company foolishly declined. Years later |
| 1900s, when vacuum cleaners were gaining | | | | when Dyson's design turned out to be the best |
| popularity across America, a man named Murray | | | | in the world, Hoover announced that declining |
| Spangler built a vacuum cleaner,(originally | | | | the Dyson design was their biggest regret. |
| called a "suction sweeper") prototype | | | | |
| intended to suck the dust to prevent his | | | | Recently people have found that the new HEPA |
| allergies. He convinced his cousin Susan | | | | vacuum cleaner bags have become much |
| Hoover to try the machine by cleaning her | | | | improved. The filters within these bags do a |
| house with it. Susan was so convinced that | | | | much better job of removing dust, pathogens |
| she and her husband, William Henry Hoover | | | | and dust mites then their predicessors. They |
| began producing more of the Spangler design | | | | are convenient for homeowners who usually |
| and sold it across America. | | | | wants an easier and faster way to dispose of |
| | | | the dirt collected in the vacuum. With a |
| For many years the Hoover was the most | | | | vacuum cleaner bag, it's as easy as attaching |
| popular brand sold in the United States, | | | | the new bag, turning on the vacuum cleaner |
| mainly because William Henry Hoover offered | | | | and then start cleaning. If you use a bag |
| buyers to use the sweeper for 10 days before | | | | less vacuum you do not have to purchase bags |
| they purchase it. Since then, Hoover became a | | | | but removing the dirt from the vacuum cleaner |
| household name: along with the latest home | | | | is usually a dirty task. Hoover's new models |
| appliance we now call a vacuum cleaner, and | | | | now include bagless vacuum cleaners, which in |
| the popular Hoover vacuum cleaners bags. | | | | turn resulted to more portable and smaller |
| | | | models. |
| Hoover was the first to use a cloth filter | | | | |
| bag, which is what we know now as the vacuum | | | | Many people, especially homeowners would |
| cleaner bag, and cleaning attachments. An | | | | argue that the invention of the vacuum |
| addition to this cleaner's salability is its | | | | cleaner was one of the top inventions of the |
| weight. The new machine weighed only 40 | | | | 20th century. The Hoover was the first |
| pounds, more than half of the original | | | | commercially successful vacuum cleaner that |
| cleaners' weight. In the UK, Hoover cleaners | | | | made cleaning less of a chore. Every |
| were sold with the slogan "It beats as it | | | | homeowner will be forever be thankful for |
| sweeps as it cleans," attributed mainly to | | | | this invention. |