"powered vacuum cleaners. Before Booth introduced his version of the vacuum cleaner, cleaning machines blew or brushed dirt away, instead of sucking it up. As Booth recalled decades later, in 1901 he attended ""a demonstration of an American machine by its inventor"" at the Empire Music Hall in London. The inventor is not named, but Booth's description of the machine conforms fairly closely to American inventor John S. Thurman’s blown air design. Booth watched a demonstration of the device, which blew dust off the chairs, and thought that ""...if the system could be reversed, and a filter inserted between the"
"in 1901. The device was used by the Royal Navy to improve the level of sanitation in the naval barracks. It was also used in businesses such as theatres and shops, although the device was too large to be feasibly used as a domestic appliance. When cleaning the Royal Mint, upon leaving he was arrested as his machine had collected a massive amount of silver dust from the coins and he had forgotten to empty it. He was however quickly released. Booth received his first patents on 18 February and 30 August 1901. Booth founded Goblin, his company to sell"
"'Griffiths' Improved Vacuum Apparatus for Removing Dust from Carpets'. Although an electric cleaner is patented in 1901 by H. Cecil Booth, Griffiths' design is more similar to modern portable cleaners than Booth's cart-mounted device. 1905: Herbert Austin begins making cars at Longbridge, many improvements in mass car manufacture and production later arise from these car works. Seventeen years later the Austin 7 goes into production, it becomes one of the most popular cars ever produced for the British market, its effect on the British market is similar to that of the Model T Ford in the USA. Austin's designs and"
"(US No. 634,042) for a ""pneumatic carpet renovator"" which blew dust into a receptacle. Thurman's system, powered by an internal combustion engine, traveled to the customers residence on a horse-drawn wagon as part of a door to door cleaning service. Corrine Dufour of Savannah, Georgia received two patents in 1899 and 1900 for another blown air system that seems to have featured the first use of an electric motor. In 1901 powered vacuum cleaners using suction were invented independently by British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth and American inventor David T. Kenney. Booth also may have coined the word ""vacuum cleaner""."
"a heating system designed to improve the distribution of heat from a wood-burning fireplace. Booth's name appears in British reference works, and the vacuum cleaners he invented and manufactured are held in London's Science Museum. Kenney's name is not found in corresponding American reference books, nor are his machines in the Smithsonian Institution or other major collections. David Kenney committed suicide in 1922 after being in ill health himself and losing his wife and a sister. David T. Kenney David T. Kenney (April 3, 1866 – May 26?, 1922) was an inventor with nine patents, granted between 1903 and 1913,"
"engines and electrical power. Finally, the third part is entitled ""The materials of power"". This looks at coal, oil, alcohol, metals and other products. The last section deals with the future. ""The Quest for Power"" is dedicated to Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner. The dedication reads: ""In friendship's name to Hubert Cecil Booth, F.C.G.I., M. Inst. C.E. who by the invention and subsequent development of the vacuum cleaner has created a new industry, lightened the burden of human toil, and increased the health and happiness of innumberable homes"". The flier advertising the book contained the following quotation:"
"suction apparatus and the outside air, whereby the dust would be retained in a receptacle, the real solution of the hygienic removal of dust would be obtained."" He tested the idea by laying a handkerchief on the seat of a restaurant chair, putting his mouth to the handkerchief, and then trying to suck up as much dust as he could onto the handkerchief. Upon seeing the dust and dirt collected on the underside of the handkerchief, he realized the idea could work. Booth created a large device, driven by an internal combustion engine. Nicknamed the ""Puffing Billy"", Booth's first petrol-powered,"
"friend of Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner. Booth married Margaret Vowles' sister. Vowles published regularly in the South Wales News in the 1920s and 1930s. Hugh Pembroke Vowles Hugh Pembroke Vowles (1885 in Pembroke, Wales – 1951 in ""The Leaze"", Oxlynch, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England) was a British engineer, socialist and author. Hugh Vowles was the son of Henry Hayes Vowles, a Wesleyan minister, author, and theologian; and of Hannah Elizabeth Thistle. Although he published under the name Hugh Pembroke Vowles, early records refer to him as William Hugh Pembroke Vowles. He married twice. First to Margaret Winifred"
"Goblin Vacuum Cleaners Goblin Vacuum Cleaners was a British brand of vacuum cleaners made from the early 1900s till the early 2000s. Goblin Vacuum Cleaners in the early 1930s were manufactured by the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Ltd. (BVC). The managing director was Hubert Cecil Booth who the company claimed had in fact invented the vacuum cleaner in about 1900, and which was subsequently copied in the USA and elsewhere. In 1902, it was recorded in the Court Journal for 25 October that Booth had the honour of showing the King and Queen the vacuum cleaning process at"
"built by Timothy Hackworth. A significant step forward came in France in 1828 when Marc Seguin devised a two-pass boiler of which the second pass was formed by a bundle of multiple tubes. A similar design with natural induction used for marine purposes was the popular Scotch marine boiler. Prior to the Rainhill trials of 1829 Henry Booth, treasurer of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway suggested to George Stephenson, a scheme for a multi-tube one-pass horizontal boiler made up of two units: a firebox surrounded by water spaces and a boiler barrel consisting of two telescopic rings inside which were"
"her design manufactured, then filed a patent (US 743,801) on June 18, 1903 that was issued to her by the US Patent Office on November 10, 1903. A similar device is recorded 3 months prior to Anderson's patent, with Robert A Douglass filing a patent for a ""locomotive-cab-window cleaner"" on 12 March 1903. Irish born inventor James Henry Apjohn (1845–1914) patented an ""Apparatus for Cleaning Carriage, Motor Car and other Windows"" which was stated to use either brushes or wipers and could be either motor driven or hand driven. The brushes or wipers were intended to clean either both up"
"rope 1895 Acetylene domestic lighting 1895 Universal AC/DC electric motor 1895 Improved pedal bicycle 1895 Manual/electric hybrid massaging machine 1897 Device for automatic bottling of acetylene 1897 Device for hermetically sealing containers of acetylene 1897 Windmill toy for hats and canes 1898 Multi-task manual-electric industrial gyratory pump 1899 Carburetor for internal combustion engines 1900 Battery electric inflatable wearable lifejacket 1901 Phototherapy instruments 1902 Spring-loaded harpoon gun toy 1902 Propulsion of model boat or submarine by acetylene Gustave Trouvé Gustave Pierre Trouvé (2 January 1839 – 27 July 1902) was a French electrical engineer and inventor in the 19th century. Trouvé"
"pioneering work in machine translation. Booth married mathematician and computer engineer Kathleen H. V. Britten; during 1947–1953 they produced three computing machines together. Booth served as President of Lakehead University from 1972–1978. Andrew Donald Booth Andrew Donald Booth (11 February 1918 – 29 November 2009) was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm. Booth was raised in Weybridge, Surrey, and educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. In 1937, he won a scholarship to read mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge. Booth left"
"to competently fill those important posts until 1846. Booth was a leading proponent of working all British railways to one standard time. On the formation of the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) on 16 July 1846, he became a director of the new large company, serving until 1859. He was also the LNWR's first secretary between 1846 and 1848. Booth proposed the basic design of the first multi-tubular boiler, invented by Marc Seguin, used on Stephenson's Rocket steam locomotive built in late 1829 for the L&M Railway. Henry Booth Henry Booth (4 April 1788 – 28 March 1869) was"
"Savannah woman, Corinne Dufour, who had a year earlier received a patent for an ""Electric Carpet Sweeper and Dust Gatherer"" whose motor was designed to operate a suction-fan, also is a forgotten figure. Kenney purchased one of the English inventor H. Cecil Booth's vacuum cleaners, and after the 1907 patent was granted, Booth withdrew his own application for a US patent. Litigation followed, and the Vacuum Cleaner Company as the holder of Kenney’s patents, was a party to several lawsuits in subsequent years. When the Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers' Association was formed in 1919, its membership was entirely made up of"
"were used for decoration or as planters, being air tight. Latrobe Stove The Latrobe Stove, also known as a ""Baltimore Heater"", was a coal-fired parlor heater made of cast iron and fitted into fireplaces as an insert. They were patented in 1846 and were very popular by the 1870s. The squat device was invented by John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe (1803–1891). He was the son of noted engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe II. Latrobe became a patent lawyer and was shy about taking credit for his stoves which succeeded Benjamin Franklin's much larger Franklin stove. In 1980 there were a"
"Andrew Donald Booth Andrew Donald Booth (11 February 1918 – 29 November 2009) was a British electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm. Booth was raised in Weybridge, Surrey, and educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. In 1937, he won a scholarship to read mathematics at Jesus College, Cambridge. Booth left Cambridge without taking a degree, having become disaffected with pure mathematics as a subject. He chose an external degree from the University of London instead, which he obtained with a first. From"
"and registering patents. The firm built furnaces, hydraulic presses, travelling cranes, and machinery for processing girders. In 1874 they made a 900 ton flanging press. The firm won awards for its equipment at Philadelphia (1876), Paris (1878) and London (1880). A wide range of steam and oil engines were developed. The firm worked on the construction of Blackpool Tower. In 1902 Fielding & Platt manufactured the first vacuum cleaner, designed by Hubert Cecil Booth, also of Gloucester. The company was acquired by Heenan & Froude in 1939. In 2012, the ""Fielding & Platt Community Archive Project"" received a £42,900 grant"
"Howe truss 1842 Inhalational anaesthetic 1842 Grain elevator 1843 Ice cream maker (hand-cranked) 1843 Multiple-effect evaporator 1843 Rotary printing press 1844 Pratt truss 1845 Pressure-sensitive tape 1845 Maynard tape primer 1845 Baseball 1846 Transverse shuttle 1846 Printing telegraph 1847 Gas mask 1847 Doughnut (ring-shaped) 1848 Pin tumbler lock 1849 Jackhammer 1849 Safety pin 1850 Dishwasher 1850 Feed dogs 1850 Vibrating shuttle 1850 Inverted microscope 1851 Rotary hook 1851 Fire alarm box 1852 Elevator brake 1853 Burglar alarm 1853 Potato chips 1853 spring Clothespin 1854 Breast pump 1855 Calliope 1856 Egg beater 1856 Condensed milk 1856 Equatorial sextant 1857 Toilet paper"
"for a gross. The Legendary Flour Sifter was patented in 1930 by a descendant of Jacob Bromwell's, Thomas G. Melish. Jacob Bromwell (born 1785), a soldier of the War of 1812 and entrepreneur, moved from Baltimore, Maryland to Cincinnati, Ohio via the Ohio River on a flatboat. He became the first wire goods manufacturer when he established The Bromwell Brush and Wire Goods Co. in 1819 and filed for incorporation on February 12, 1883. The company supplied pioneering families with a multitude of household goods. He opened up his company in a six-story building at 181 Walnut Street in downtown"
"and exposed a catgut cord that led to the upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other. Spectators realized they had been duped and destroyed the machine; Redheffer fled the city. Redheffer appears to have constructed another machine in 1816, which he stated his intention to demonstrate to a group of men including the mayor and chief justice of Philadelphia. However, despite several meetings, Redheffer refused to demonstrate the machine to them. On July 11, 1820, the U.S. Patent Office granted a patent to Charles Redheffer"
"""chamber pot"" and the ""bourdaloue"", the latter being a small, hand-held chamber pot. Historical antecedents and early functions of the bidet are believed to include devices used for contraception. Bidets are considered ineffective by today's standards of contraception, and their use for this function was quickly abandoned and forgotten with the advent of modern contraceptives such as the pill. By 1900, due to plumbing improvements, the bidet (and chamber pot) moved from the bedroom to the bathroom. This was common in French palaces. In the United States in 1928 John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent on an ""anal douche""."
"self-contained electric or gas powered appliances are a uniquely American innovation that emerged in the twentieth century. The development of these appliances is tied to the disappearance of full-time domestic servants and the desire to reduce the time-consuming activities in pursuit of more recreational time. In the early 1900s, electric and gas appliances included washing machines, water heaters, refrigerators and sewing machines. The invention of Earl Richardson's small electric clothes iron in 1903 gave a small initial boost to the home appliance industry. In the Post–World War II economic expansion, the domestic use of dishwashers, and clothes dryers were part"
"for factory workers across Britain. Cadbury's still makes chocolate in the city today and Bournville remains a sought after area to live in. 1900: John Wright invents a much-improved gas fire, which uses fretted columns of fireclay, rather than tufted asbestos, to radiate the heat. The Wright design of gas fire heating endures throughout the century, however, electric fires improve at a similar pace. 1902: The first caliper-type automobile disc brake is patented by Frederick William Lanchester in his Birmingham factory and used successfully on Lanchester cars. However, the limited choice of metals in this period means that he has"
"store, and powered by ""any one person (such as the ordinary domestic servant)"", who would have the task of compressing a bellows-like contraption to suck up dust through a removable, flexible pipe, to which a variety of shaped nozzles could be attached. In 1906 James B. Kirby developed his first of many vacuums called the ""Domestic Cyclone"". It used water for dirt separation. Later revisions came to be known as the Kirby Vacuum Cleaner. In 1907 department store janitor James Murray Spangler (1848-1915) of Canton, Ohio invented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner, obtaining a patent for the Electric Suction"
"Latrobe Stove The Latrobe Stove, also known as a ""Baltimore Heater"", was a coal-fired parlor heater made of cast iron and fitted into fireplaces as an insert. They were patented in 1846 and were very popular by the 1870s. The squat device was invented by John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe (1803–1891). He was the son of noted engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe II. Latrobe became a patent lawyer and was shy about taking credit for his stoves which succeeded Benjamin Franklin's much larger Franklin stove. In 1980 there were a small number of antique stove restorers but most old stoves"
"The bulky device worked with a belt driven fan cranked by hand that made it awkward to operate, although it was commercially marketed with mixed success. A similar model was constructed by Melville R. Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1876, who also manufactured carpet sweepers. The company later added portable vacuum cleaners to its line of cleaning tools. The end of the 19th century saw the introduction of powered cleaners, although early types used some variation of blowing air to clean instead of suction. One appeared in 1898 when John S. Thurman of St. Louis, Missouri submitted a patent"
"invention at that time - the first commercially successful version was patented in July 1909 - and the bread had to be turned manually once the first side had been toasted. During a shopping trip, Copeman's wife Hazel gave them the idea for a toaster which turned the bread without manual intervention, and in 1914 a patent for what Copeman called the Automatic Toaster was filed in Hazel's name. Five other toaster-related patents were granted to both Lloyd and Hazel during the same year. The invention of the pop-up toaster in 1926 superseded Copeman's innovations, however. A company called Copeman"
"computations involved were extremely tedious and there was ample incentive for automating the process and he developed an analogue computer to compute the reciprocal spacings of the diffraction pattern. In 1947, along with his collaborator and future spouse Kathleen Britten, he spent a few months with von Neumann's team, which was the leading edge in computer research at the time. Booth designed an electromechanical computer, the ARC (Automatic Relay Computer), in the late 1940s (1947-1948). Later on, they built an experimental electronic computer named SEC (Simple Electronic Computer, designed around 1948-1949), and finally the APE(X)C (All-Purpose Electronic Computer) series. The"
"moves to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where he uses a method of electromagnetic focusing to invent the mass spectrograph, which rapidly allows him to identify no fewer than 212 of the 287 naturally occurring isotopes. His work on isotopes also leads to his formulation of the Whole Number Rule, which is later used extensively in the development of nuclear energy. In 1922 he wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of the mass spectrometer. 1905: A manually powered domestic vacuum cleaner is invented by manufacturer Walter Griffiths of 72, Conybere Street, Highgate. It is originally patented as"
"Ruth Mary Copeman Ronstadt, Lloyd's daughter. 1915 Electrical heating unit. No. 1,138,733; May 11 Electromagnetic switch. No. 1,141,174; June 1 Electric stove. No. 1,141,175; June 1 Electrically heated oven. No. 1,141,176; June 1 1916 Automatically controlled electrical cooking apparatus. No. 1,180,571; April 25 Collapsible grease-capsule. No. 1,190,382; July 11 1917 Grease-cup. No. 1,222,185; April 10 1918 Grease-cup. No. 1,269,159; June 11 Grease-cup. No. 1,287,889; June 11 Drill. No. 1,264370; April 30 Grease-cup. No. 1,287,889; December 17 1919 Grease-cup. No. 1,294,773; February 18 Grease-cup. No. 1,300,699; April 15 Adjustable thermometer. No. 1,312,834 Grease-cup. No. 1,292,594 Grease-cup. No. 1,314,073; August 26 Shank"
"producing floorcare products, Hoover was also an iconic domestic appliance brand in Europe, particularly well known for its washing machines and tumble dryers in the UK and Ireland, and also had significant sales in many parts of Europe. Today, the Hoover Europe brand, as part of the portfolio of brands owned by Candy Group, remains a major player in the European white goods and floor care sectors in a number of countries. The first upright vacuum cleaner was invented in June 1908 by Canton, Ohio department store janitor and occasional inventor James Murray Spangler (1848–1915). Spangler was an asthmatic, and"
"Baltimore, Maryland thought it might be interesting to resize the pins to match the 6-inch ball. Thus, the inventor of duckpin bowling, John Van Sant, used a wood turner to do exactly that. 1900 Nickel-zinc battery 1900 Merrill-Crowe process 1900 Carbide lamp 1900 Fly swatter 1900 Thumbtack 1901 Key punch 1901 Mercury-vapor lamp 1901 Assembly line Used globally around the world, an assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner in order to create a finished product more quickly than with older methods. This type of manufacturing greatly reduces"