It’s about time you feed your mind with the history of home cleaning inventions. Traditionally, home cleaning was done using simple methods, despite proving to be of help, they were inefficient and time-consuming. Before the invention of vacuum cleaners, rags were hanged on a line then pounded to remove as much dirt as possible.
The earliest inventions
Home cleaning was quite a challenging task, and that created the need to develop mechanisms that could aid in the process. In 1599 there was a first attempt to improve the cleaning process, a device was made that had the ability mechanically clean carpets.
A Chicago inventor Ives McGaffey invented the first patent sweeping machine
on June 8, 1869. The device was not motorized but could clean rags quite effectively. McGaffey called this machine a wood and canvas contraption or basically the whirlwind. The device is still considered as the first hand-pumped vacuum cleaner in the united states.
John Thurman
1899 saw john Thurman inventing a gasoline-powered vacuum cleaner. It was the first motorized cleaning device as considered by some historians. Thurman’s invention was patented on October 3, 1899. Thurman started a door to door service in St Louis with a horse-drawn vacuum system soon after and was priced at $4 per visit in 1903.
Hubert Cecil Booth
Hubert Cecil Booth was a British engineer who patented a motorized vacuum cleaner in 1901. The booth machine was a large horse drawn- petrol driven unit. It was usually parked outside the house to be cleaned, and the hoses passed through the windows into the house.
Later in the same year. Booth demonstrated the efficiency of his cleaning device in a restaurant.
More variations of Booth’s vacuum would later be invented by different Americans. Tо mention, David Kenney developed the machine that was placed on the cellar and connected to a network of pipes that ran into different rooms. Corinne DuFour invented a clean er that could suck dirt form a damp rag.
The early invention vacuum cleaner, however, had shortcomings, they were huge, noisy and smelly.
Hoover vacuum cleaners
In 1907 James Spangler invented the first portable and electric vacuum cleaner. He later improved the standard model by having his vacuum cleaner use both the clothe filter bag and cleaning attachments. He received a patent for his invention in 1908.
Spangler then formed an electric suction sweeper company, and among the first customers to his products was his cousin whose husband later became the founder and president of the hoover company, a vacuum cleaner’s manufacturer.
James Spangler later sold his patent rights to Hoover company but still remained as their top designer. He went ahead to finance additional improvements on Spangler’s vacuum.
The company produced the first commercial bag on a stick vacuum cleaner. However, the earlier sales were sluggish, and this had them come up with a marketing strategy, to offer ten days free home trial. The ideas saw their sales rise up tremendously and by the end of 1919, nearly every home in united states had a hoover vacuum cleaner.
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