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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]
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".
It premiered March 3, 2021 on Hunkin's YouTube channel [7] with an episode on chain and belts. In the last episode of series 1, Hunkin commented that he may make another series the following winter. A 5 episode second series then debuted in spring 2022. On March 27, 2023, a third series of four episodes was announced on Hunkin's YouTube channel ...
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. [1]
Lt. Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), RN, builder of the Wiener Riesenrad Share of the Wiener Riesen Rad Ltd., issued 21. March 1898. The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth ...
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In 1902 Fielding & Platt manufactured the first vacuum cleaner, [7] designed by Hubert Cecil Booth, also of Gloucester. The company was acquired by Heenan & Froude in 1939. [8] During World War II the factory manufactured munitions and parts for Hurricanes and Spitfires. Many more women worked for the company as many of the men had been called ...
4 July – Hubert Cecil Booth, engineer and inventor (died 1955) 15 August – Arthur Tansley, botanist and ecologist (died 1955) 6 September – Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England (died 1950) 10 September Thomas Adams, Scottish-born urban planner (died 1940) Charles Collett, Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer (died 1952)