A History Of Vacuum Cleaners
Regular vacuum-cleaning can lengthen the life of your carpet, in which you may have invested a considerable amount of money. If rugs and carpets are not vacuumed on a regular basis, dirt, dust, dead dust mites and other allergens can become so embedded in the carpet fibers that even industrial vacuum cleaners will have trouble removing it.
In the past, vacuum cleaners presented the problem of taking up closet space, being too heavy for elderly or people with back problems to use, noise, and tendency to render a large quantity of dust airborne while cleaning. Today, the designers of best vacuum cleaners in the world have solved many of those problems. Beyond the basic Hoover or Electrolux mom pushed around as we played with dolls or trucks, today high end vacuum cleaners are available from manufacturers such as Dyson vacuum cleaners, Eureka vacuum, Kirby vacuum cleaners, Miele vacuum cleaners.
Just 10 years ago, vacuum cleaners ratings or reviews were only available in specialty publications such as Consumer Reports, while today a list of the top 10 vacuum cleaners with detailed reviews can be pulled up via an Internet search in seconds.
Prior to the invention of the vacuum cleaners, carpetings had to be beaten outside.Although diverse carpet-sweeping devices were produced as far back as the 1840s, in 1876, Herbert Melville Bissell made the first hand-pushed sweeper with rotary brushes.Mr. Bissell achieved immortality as the founding father of a still-prominent vacuum maker. In England in 1901, Hubert Cecil Booth formulated a gasoline-powered piston-pump vacuum which was carried on a horse-drawn van, and extended into windows.
The electrical vacuum cleaner was created in Canton, Ohio in 1907 by James Murray Spangler who was an inventor who had dust allergies and asthma. Spangler’s vacuum cleaner comprised of a box of wood and tin with a broomstick and a pillow case for a debris bag. Spangler merged the suction principle (via a fan) with a rotating brush, incorporating the best properties of Booth and Bissell’s inventions.
Spangler sold his patent to a relative, William H. “Boss” Hoover, who put the Hoover Model 0 on the market in 1908.
