A vacuum cleaner is an absolute must have home appliance these days. All of us rely on our vacuum cleaner to help keep our homes free of dirt and dust, although how we go about it sometimes, doesn’t give a lot of thought as to how efficient the vacuum cleaner really is.
Before electric vacuums were created, home cleaning was a tedious task. Back then, floors had to be cleaned with brushes, mops, and brooms. Rugs and carpets had to be removed from the floor, hung up outdoors, and beaten to get the dust out. Doing things this way involved a lot of time and effort and caused many health complaints.
The earlier inventions of non electric floor cleaning devices made home cleaning much easier. People started to look for ways to improve on the efficiency of these machines, which caused all types of contraptions to be invented.
Throughout the 100 year history of the vacuum cleaner, there have been all sorts of improvements. The very first electric vacuums were created in the early 1900s. In 1908, the Hoover Company built the first electric vacuum cleaner that used a cloth filter bag and cleaning attachments as well.
During the years that followed, many...