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Hubert Cecil Booth (4 July 1871 – 14 January 1955) [1] was an English engineer, best known for having invented one of the first powered vacuum cleaners. [2] [3] [4] [5]He also designed Ferris wheels, [1] [6] suspension bridges and factories. [1]
In the early 1930s, Goblin vacuum cleaners were manufactured by the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Ltd. (BVC). The managing director was Hubert Cecil Booth who, the company claimed, had invented the vacuum cleaner in about 1900, although it was subsequently copied in the USA and elsewhere.
The Quest for Power is dedicated to Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner.The dedication reads: "In friendship's name to Hubert Cecil Booth, F.C.G.I., M. Inst. C.E. who by the invention and subsequent development of the vacuum cleaner has created a new industry, lightened the burden of human toil, and increased the health and happiness of innumberable homes".
[10] [9] Booth also may have coined the word "vacuum cleaner". [10] Booth's horse-drawn combustion-engine-powered "Puffing Billy", [11] maybe derived from Thurman's blown-air design, [12] relied upon just suction with air pumped through a cloth filter and was offered as part of his cleaning services. Kenney's was a stationary 4,000 lb (1,800 kg ...
Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor, founder of Goblin Vacuum Cleaners; Lorraine Bowen, singer and songwriter; Matthew Boyce, cricketer; Herbert Brewer, organist and composer, Gloucester Cathedral; Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the lawnmower; John Canton, physicist; Cornelius Cardew, composer, [1] born in Winchcombe
1901: First powered vacuum cleaner invented by Hubert Cecil Booth (1871–1955). [71] [72] [73] Before 1902: First practical Teasmade designed by clockmaker Albert E. Richardson (dates not known) of Ashton-under-Lyne. Before 1920: Folding carton invented by Charles Henry Foyle (died 1948).
Hubert Cecil Booth (1871–1955), inventor of the vacuum cleaner; Joseph Bramah (1748–1814), inventor of the hydraulic press (beer pump) Sir Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), discoverer of hydrogen; Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), inventor of the hovercraft; William Congreve (1772–1828), rocketry pioneer; Abraham Darby (c. 1678 – 1717 ...
Charlotte Mary Pearce (17/7/1872 - 24/10/1948) married Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the powered vacuum cleaner; Henry Allen Pearce (15/10/1873 - 12/11/1931) married Mary Yeoman Harding Vowles (1879–1960) In the 1901 census, Henry Allen Pearce is noted as a miller. Francis Thomas Pearce (10/5/1875 - 17/2/1964) married Rose Marianne Parmenter