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  2. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Patent model of Daniel Hess's carpet sweeper. 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 ...

  3. Street sweeper - Wikipedia

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    A street sweeper or street cleaner is a person or machine that cleans streets. People have worked in cities as " sanitation workers " since sanitation and waste removal became a priority. A street-sweeping person would use a broom and shovel to clean off litter , animal waste and filth that accumulated on streets.

  4. Carpet sweeper - Wikipedia

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    A carpet sweeper typically consists of a small box. The base of the box has wheels and brushes, connected by a belt or gears or rollers. There is also a container for dirt. The arrangement is such that, when pushed along a floor, the rollers/wheels turn and force the brushes to rotate. The brushes sweep dirt and dust from the floor into the ...

  5. Auxiliary motor minesweepers - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Navy auxiliary motor minesweeper USS YMS-143 when new in February 1943. Secretly transferred to the Soviet Navy on 17 May 1945 during Project Hula, she became T-522 and took part in the Soviet conquest of the Japanese province of Karafuto on southern Sakhalin Island between 11 and 25 August 1945.

  6. Minesweeper - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic naval minesweeper as a monument in Kotka, Finland Siegburg, a modern Ensdorf-class minesweeper of the German Navy. Minesweepers are equipped with mechanical or electrical devices, known as "sweeps", for disabling mines.

  7. Category : World War II minesweepers of the United States

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  9. Mine flail - Wikipedia

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    A preserved World War II Sherman Crab, an M4 Sherman tank fitted with a flail. A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a minefield by deliberately detonating land mines in front of the vehicle that carries it.

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