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The first improvements were made to the carpet sweeper.
Corinne Dufour improves carpet sweeper by powering it with electricity and covering the rollers with sponge which were moistened with water to better collect the dust. -
The first motorized vacuum was invented.
Hubert Cecil Booth from England invented the first motorized vacuum cleaner driven by an internal combustion engine. It was placed on the horse carriage because of its size -
A vacuum cleaner that used water was invented
James B. Kirby invented a "Domestic Cyclone"- a vacuum cleaner that used water to collect dirt. -
The vaccume had some major and much needed updates made
The first motorized, portable vacuum cleaner invented by James Murray Spangler, a janitor from Canton, Ohio. It had electric fan, a box, and a pillowcase to collect dust. He later sold the patent to William Henry Hoover. -
Eureka Vacuum Company was founded
Founded Eureka Vacuum Company by Fred Wardell, businessman from Detroit. -
Making vacuums smaller
Charles Beach and Frederick Osius, and Louis Hamilton, invented a small motor that could ran on either AC or DC electrical power and which will later power many vacuum cleaners and make them smaller. -
New manufacturing starts
Air-Way Sanitizor of Toledo, Ohio starts to manufacture vacuum cleaners with a disposable bag and was the first to do so -
More improvements
Hoover invented a “beater bar” (marketed as “Positive Agitation”). It’s a metal bar attached to the rotating brush roll in the floor nozzle and it vibrates the carpet while sucking which removes dirt more efficiently. -
Vacuums appear in shops
The first vacuum cleaner by Scott and Fetzer to carry Kirby's name appeared in shops this year. It was the Kirby Model C. -
No human needed
iRobot makes Roomba: a disc-shaped vacuum cleaner with AI and sensors that cleans the room without human involvement.