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Facts about Vacuum Cleaner
Here are some interesting facts about vacuum cleaners and their history:
Some of the earliest home vacuum cleaners needed two people to operate them - one to vacuum and push or pull the heavy machinery.
Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers Association says that 98% of households in America have a vacuum cleaner.
One of the pieces of advice for cleaning carpets was to sprinkle a carpet with tea leaves before vacuum cleaners. The idea was that this attracted dust and dirt to the surface and made it ready to be swept. It didn’t work.
America's first female corporate CEO was Anna Bissell, who took over the job after her husband Melville Bissell died. She was the CEO of BISSELL Company, which manufactured carpet sweepers - predecessors of vacuum cleaners.
Brushes on the attachment of a vacuum cleaner do most of the cleaning.
Some modern vacuum cleaners can vacuum water and liquids. Earlier cleaners couldn’t do that (or they could but for a short time, and then they would explode.)
There are vacuum cleaners equipped with sensors that tell when a surface has been sufficiently cleaned.
Rambo Amadeus, a Belgrade-based Montenegrin singer-songwriter, sometimes makes performances that include playing on household appliances, predominant vacuum cleaners.
The first museum of vacuum cleaners was opened in St. James, Missouri.
The first iron lung was made in 1927 and consisted of one electric motor and two vacuum cleaners.
And as always have a chilled day from the Viking
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