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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".
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.
Historical Figures Mentioned: Hubert Cecil Booth, James M. Spangler, William H. Hoover. 2: 2 "The Secret Life of the Sewing Machine" 22 November 1988 () ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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).
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 ...