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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 origins of Electrolux are closely tied to the vacuum, but today it also makes major appliances. Vacuum cleaner designed by Lurelle Guild c. 1937 Brooklyn Museum. Electrolux made an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in 1928 (it was delisted in 2010) [8] and another on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1930. [9] [10]
This is a list of vacuum cleaners and robot vacuum cleaner manufacturers. A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is gathered by either a dustbag or a rigid cartridge, which may be emptied and reused.
Electrolux Model V, first vacuum sold by Electrolux Corp USA 1924-1928. In 1924, Gustaf Sahlin came to America to set up Electrolux Corp USA to import and sell the new tank type vacuum cleaner in America. The machine was the revolutionary Lux Model V made by AB Electro-Lux of Sweden and invented by Axel Wenner-Gren. [3]
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 ...
Anders Celsius (1701–44) was an astronomer and mathematician most famous for inventing the 100-point thermometer scale, widely used across the world.; Sven Åderman is a Swedish inventor who created a musket capable of firing more rapidly than conventional weaponry of the late 18th century.
The prototype cleaner was first seen on the BBC television programme Tomorrow's World. It actually announced on 1 December 1997. [1] [2] In 2001, Trilobite was launched. [3] Model ZA1 was the world's first commercially available autonomous vacuum cleaner. [4] The Trilobite cost around $1,500. [5]
Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Sweden – Celsius temperature scale; Vint Cerf (born 1943), together with Bob Kahn (1938–), U.S. – Internet Protocol (IP) Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp)