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30/08/1901 Vacuum cleaner is patented

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Who Invented the Vacuum Cleaner?

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History of the Vacuum Cleaner

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The inventor was English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth. Before his invention cleaning machines blew or brushed dirt away, instead of sucking it up. Booth watched a demonstration of the device, which blew dust off the chairs, and thought that the system could be reversed and a dust retained in a receptacle.
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