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  2. Hubert Cecil Booth - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa. Called a "carpet sweeper", it gathered dust with a rotating brush and had a bellows for generating suction. [4] [5] Another early model (1869) was the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The bulky device worked with a belt driven fan ...

  4. The Hoover Company - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. David Oreck - Wikipedia

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    It came with the abandoned design for an upright vacuum cleaner by Whirlpool, a business RCA had a shareholding in. However, Whirlpool's largest customer, Sears was concerned the arrangement would compete with them so in 1963, Oreck and his brother Marshall set up Oreck Corporation to independently sell his own vacuum cleaners by mail order. [5]

  6. James M. Spangler - Wikipedia

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    James Murray Spangler (November 20, 1848 – January 23, 1915) was an American inventor, salesman, and janitor who invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner that revolutionized household carpet cleaning. His device was not the first vacuum cleaner, but it was the first that was practical for home use.

  7. Manual vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    The manual vacuum cleaner was a type of non-electric vacuum cleaner, using suction to remove dirt from carpets, being powered by human muscle, similar in use to a manual lawn mower. Its invention is dated to the second half of the 19th century, when patents were granted to inventors in the United States, Britain, France, and elsewhere.

  8. 73 Brands That Are Still Made Right Here in the USA - AOL

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    Many of the vacuums and air purifiers made by Oreck are made outside the United States, but its signature Xtended Life vacuum is still made entirely at its factory in Cookeville, Tennessee, even ...

  9. David T. Kenney - Wikipedia

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    David T. Kenney (April 3, 1866 – May 26?, 1922) was an inventor with nine patents, granted between 1903 and 1913, applicable to both machine-driven and manual vacuum cleaners, dominated the vacuum cleaner industry in the United States until the 1920s.

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