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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]
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]
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Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company was founded in 1909 in Detroit, Mich. by Toronto, Canada-born real estate auctioneer Fred Wardell (1866–1952) [3] to sell vacuum cleaners for which he had acquired several patents. [4] At first only selling vacuum cleaners manufactured by others, in 1913 he and four partners purchased their first plant.
As an incentive to new customers, Kirby offers the Service Center Vacuum Rebuild Program for original owners who have been registered with the company. As long as the customer owns the machine as the registered owner, if the cleaner needs repair, they can send it back to the Rebuild Department and have it restored to "like-new" condition.
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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 ...
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