The Hoover Company
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The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry
Henry Dreyfuss
The Model 200 Duster and Model 575 upright, which used the same motor
1937 Hoover ad by Australian photographer Max Dupain, showing the headlamp
Debut ad for the Hoover Model 29, the first Hoover cleaner made in red
Vacuum cleaner
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A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets, hard floors, and other surfaces.
The Hoover Company
…multinational home appliance company Haier, remains a major player in the European white goods and floorcare sectors in several countries. The first upright vacuum cleaner was invented in June 1908 in North Canton, Ohio, by department store janitor and occasional inventor James Murray Spangler. Spangler was an asthmatic…
A Numatic Henry, one of the most common canister-style cleaners in the United Kingdom
An early hand-pumped vacuum cleaner
Housemaid using "dedusting pump", c. 1906
A hand-powered pneumatic vacuum cleaner, c. 1910. An early electric-powered model is also shown.