• A vacuum cleaner is an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction. It is designed to remove dirt and debris into a bag or fixed container.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Price range: $15 to $1,500
  2. Many types including upright, canister and hand-held
  3. Hoover and Electrolux are among the most well known
  4. James Dyson created the cyclone cleaner in 1985, notable for extreme suction power, long life, and bag-less system.
  5. Roomba produced the first commercial robotic vacuum cleaner in 2000.

• History:

  The first inkling of a vacuum cleaner was invented by Ives W. McGaffney in 1869. He called his invention the "Whirlwind" and it was a manual hand crank mechanism to produce suction and had no brush roller. Melville Bissell, in 1876, is largely credited with the major invention of what we know today as a vacuum cleaner.

  Hubert Cecil Booth patented the first powered vacuum cleaner in 1901 and started the British Vacuum cleaner company.

  Hoover soon followed in 1908 with their Model O vacuum cleaner. This machine had a cloth bag filter and a variety of attachments.

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