History of vacuum cleaners

About history of vacuum cleaners

The first vacuum cleaner invented to clean rugs was back in 1869. Ives McGaffey patented the vacuum cleaner he called a "sweeping machine". After the invention of the sweeping machine, other inventors improved upon it.

Hubert Cecil Booth, a British engineer, came into the picture in 1901 when he received a patent for vacuum cleaners. He had a horse drawn petrol-driven unit park outside while long cleaning hoses passed through windows.

One day as Herbert Cecil Booth was doing a demonstration on the vacuum cleaner in a restaurant; there were two Americans who introduced different variations to the vacuum cleaner. One of the two inventors Corinne Dufour developed an invention that sucked dust into a wet sponge.

However, David E. Kenney's invention of a huge machine is what some may find odd. His invention was installed in the cellar of homes and connected to the piping that lead to each room of the home. This contraption would take massive amounts of cleaners to move from house to house.

Vacuum cleaners would never be the same from this day forward.

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