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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Gene Spangler (1922–2010), American football player; Harrison E. Spangler (1879–1965), American politician and chairman of the Republican National Committee; Jacob Spangler (1767–1843), American politician from Pennsylvania; James M. Spangler (1848–1915), American inventor and janitor; designed the first portable electric vacuum cleaner
A York County jury has awarded $23.87 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit to James Spangler, 58, of Manchester, who suffered catastrophic injuries following a spinal surgery at York Hospital.
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.
June 22 – James M. Spangler patents the upright portable vacuum cleaner in the United States. September 27 – The first of Henry Ford's Ford Model T automobiles is produced in Detroit, Michigan. [15] December 7 – Lee Newman files a patent for a felt-tipped marker pen in the United States. [16]