Who invented the first vacuum cleaner?

Hubert Cecil Booth: Inventor of First Powered Vacuum Cleaner

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You have been using electric vacuum cleaner in your daily life and you better know how it has made your life easier. Now your cleaning becomes so easy. But, do you know who invented the vacuum cleaner? Who was the man behind this great invention? In year 1905 Walter Griffiths designed first cleaning machine, it suck up dust using a flexible pipe and bellows.  Another man named James B. Kirby invented a vacuum machine in 1906.

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In 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth from England invented the first vacuum cleaner which was based on the same principle that we use in today’s modern world. This vacuum cleaner was the first powered vacuum cleaner. Booth was an English engineer and later became the CMD of British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering. He was born in Gloucester England in 1871.  He had done 3 year course of civil engineering and mechanical engineering.

  Initially booth started cleaning services rather attempt to sold his machine.  This machine was too bulky to move from one place to another and it had to be transported by horse and carriage.  Due to frightening horses and annoying noise of his vacuum cleaner machine, he had to face complaints against him.  He also got arrested when he was cleaning royal mint because his machine massive amount of silver dust from the coins and forgot to empty it back.

Booth got his first patent on 18 February 1901. He founded his company Goblin to sell vacuum cleaning services. He refined his invention in next decades. Booth this first vacuum cleaner was drawn by horse and relied upon air drawn by piston pump through a cloth filter. There is no brush in this device and cleaning done by suction through long tube with nozzles at one end. This first vacuum machine was called ‘Puffing Billy’.