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Electrolux products are sold under a variety of brand names (including its own), and are primarily major appliances and vacuum cleaners intended for home consumer use. [6] Electrolux has a primary listing on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the OMX Stockholm 30 index.
Electrolux Model V, first vacuum sold by Electrolux Corp USA 1924-1928. In 1924, Gustaf Sahlin came to America to set up Electrolux Corp USA to import and sell the new tank type vacuum cleaner in America. The machine was the revolutionary Lux Model V made by AB Electro-Lux of Sweden and invented by Axel Wenner-Gren. [3]
This is a list of vacuum cleaners and robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers. A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is gathered by either a dustbag or a rigid cartridge, which may be emptied and reused.
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company was founded in 1909 in Detroit, Mich. by Toronto, Canada-born real estate auctioneer Fred Wardell (1866–1952) [3] to sell vacuum cleaners for which he had acquired several patents. [4] At first only selling vacuum cleaners manufactured by others, in 1913 he and four partners purchased their first plant.
Electrolux can refer to: Aerus LLC, Formerly Electrolux USA, a North American manufacturer of vacuum cleaners that once sold Electrolux Group products. Electrolux (The Electrolux Group), a Swedish manufacturer of appliances and vacuum cleaners. Electrolux addisoni, an electric ray fish of the genus Electrolux
The first upright vacuum cleaner was invented in June 1908 in North Canton, Ohio by department store janitor and occasional inventor James Murray Spangler.Spangler was an asthmatic, and suspecting the carpet sweeper he was using at work was the cause of his ailment, he created a basic suction-sweeper by mounting an electric fan motor on a carpet sweeper and then adding a soap box and a broom ...
Tricity Bendix, Electrolux and AEG as well as Zanussi were all to be serviced by the one network. This was changed in the late 1990s and early 2000s as Electrolux sold or gave away the regional service centres, generally to the existing management or to area managers to run as independent businesses.
In addition, miniaturized computer technology and improved batteries allowed the development of a new type of machine—the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner. In 1997 Electrolux of Sweden demonstrated the Electrolux Trilobite, the first autonomous cordless robotic vacuum cleaner on the BBC-TV program Tomorrow's World, introducing it to the ...