Every Home Should Have One - History of The Vacuum Cleaner TV Programme 2003

This old clip is taken from the six part series Every Home Should Have One and gives
a brief History of the invention of the vacuum cleaner.

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Closed Caption:

the new wall to wall carpet needed a new
way of keeping them clean
you couldn't take them outside with a
betta and the answer wasn't immediately
apparent
if things had gone differently
I'll be cleaning my house with one of
these because the earliest mechanical
clean is actually blues ago but all that
changed in 1901 when Englishman Hubert
sessle booth
what's the demonstration of a boy and
that gave him the idea to use suction
and to demonstrate the principle used a
hankie a tube and some dirt and what he
did was this takes the hankie those put
it over the tube and that's the birth of
the vacuum cleaner but not as we know it
today
let me show you
oh yeah
go
the first vacuum cleaners were like this
as big as a truck
what would happen was a team of cleaners
would turn round to your house with a
horse-drawn wagon with big horses put
them in through your doors in your
windows and an engine on the back of the
wagon will create suction and suck all
that the writer and the idea actually
caught on foods vacuums were soon to be
seen outside
all the best establishments from royal
palaces to the houses of parliament and
the best hotels but an appliance the
size of a truck was the province of the
very very wealthy
locally
downsizing with just around the corner
the were cleaning machines that use
suction but they weren't powered like
this 1908 baby daisy we choose a bellows
effect
a cheap and cheerful alternative made
right up until the nineteen thirties was
this star hand pump vacuum cleaner from
1911 but it was a man called Hoover who
in 1908 popularized a vacuum cleaner as
we know it today
however this should be called Spangler's
as mr. Hoover bought the patent from an
asthmatic caretaker called Spangler who
invented the machine to help his work
nonetheless Hoover is the name that
still sore did their mantra beats as it
sweeps as includes
where who led others followed and soon
models like this goblin were jumping on
the back to try and differentiate this
one could be taken apart and one on the
arm
not as a fashion accessory but to clean
curtains
it took over half a century for vacuum
technology to change significantly in
1993 the first of a new breed of vacuum
cleaner
the revolutionary Marshall is a cyclonic
Dyson appeared
it had no bag which meant no loss of
suction however much dirty collected
maybe this mantra is set to replace it
beats as it sweeps as it cleans as the
vacuuming catchphrase for the new
millennium
how times have changed
turning into a shoe in a vacuum cleaner
story
good like most household appliances
viking cleaners were originally sold
door-to-door and an enterprising
salesman party struck gold when he did a
demonstration of the royal mint
let me show you this demonstration was
the most thorough never given the
officials looked on with their bullying
room with swype pretty and they were so
impressed that the county salesman was
halfway out of the door with his vacuum
full of gold dust before they stopped it
mind you he still cleaned up
it just is more often full of other
things like just might
homes are full of one scene enemies that
we've run a mile from if we can see them
they eat that dried skin flakes offers
which is good because as it is still in
makes up around a quarter of the dust in
a vacuum cleaner bag and that's in
today's modern clean homes
imagine how bad things were before we
had plumbing and electricity