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The Vacuum Cleaner Was Harder to Invent Than You Might Think
Hubert Cecil Booth was born to suck.
On this day in 1901, the inventor patented the vacuum in the U.K.–or an early version of it, at least.
His machine, known as the “Puffing Billy,” was the size of a coach and had to be pulled by a horse from place to place–a far cry from the home Hoovers that would be on the market less than a decade later, but a significant improvement on everything that had come before.
Floor coverings like rugs have probably been around for about as long as there have been floors.
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Before vacuums, the standard technique for cleaning a rug was to hang it up outside and beat the dust and grime out of it with a paddle (known as a carpet beater). Carpet sweepers, which sucked up debris by mechanical means and weren’t motorized, came around in the 1860s, writes Curt Wohleber for Invention & Technology.
But the technology to make an electric vacuum work took a little longer to come about.
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