Vacuum Cleaner Information

How Does a Vacuum Work?
How to Make Your Vacuum Cleaner Smell Good
Why do Vacuum Cleaners Smell?
What Are Vacuum Cleaner Scent Tabs?
How to Keep Your Vacuum Cleaner Running Like New
How to Vacuum Heat Ducts
How is Vacuum Measured?
Who Invented the Vacuum Cleaner?
Where Are Electrolux Vacuums Made?
How to Choose a Central Vac
Vacuum Cleaner Service
How to Repair a Broken Vacuum Belt
How to Change the Belt on a Dyson
Changing a Kirby Vacuum Belt
What Are Vacuum Cleaner Bags?
What Are Vacuum Bag Types?
How to Change Bags in Bissell Powerforce
What are Allergen Filters?
How to Put an S Type Filter on a Hoover Vacuum
Cleaning Your Dyson HEPA Filter
What Does HEPA Stand For?
Where Can I Find HEPA Air Purifiers?
What are HEPA Filters?
What Are Micron Filters?
What Are Vacuum Cleaner Filters?
Emptying a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner
Cleaning Dyson Vacuum Cleaners
How to Clean My Dyson Vacuum
How to Clean a Dyson Vacuum Brush
What Are Vacuum Cleaner Brush Rollers?
How to Stop Hose Collapse in a Vacuum
How to Stop Hose Collapse on a Shop Vac
Canister Vacuum Motor Access
What Are Canister Vacuum Cleaners?
What Are Lightweight Vacuum Cleaners?
What Are Upright Vacuum Cleaners?
Replacing Hoover Valve Seal
How to Replace a Vacuum Electrical Plug
How to Change the Battery in Dirt Devil Kone
How to Use a Shop Vac
How to Shampoo a Carpet
How to Use a Hoover Steam Vac
How Do You Use a Hoover SteamVac Deluxe?
How to Use Bissell Little Green Machine
How to Use Kirby Vacuum Carpet Shampooer
Where Can I Donate a Vacuum Cleaner?

Buying a Vacuum Cleaner

How to Buy a Vacuum Cleaner
The Best Vacuum Cleaner for Pet Lovers
What is the Best Cordless Vacuum?
What is the Best Upright Bagless Vacuum?
What is the Best Vacuum for Wood Floors?
What is the Best Carpet Cleaner?
What is the Best Central Vacuum System?
What is the Best Shop Vac?
The Best Vacuum Cleaner for Allergy Sufferers
Should You Get a Bagless Vacuum Cleaner?
Should You Get a Canister or Upright Vacuum Cleaner?

How to Buy

When looking for a vacuum cleaner you want power and reliability. You get that when you buy a long-time industry leading Hoover vacuum cleaner.

Who Invented the Vacuum Cleaner?

Prior to the invention of the vacuum cleaner, rugs were swept with a broom or taken outside where they were hung over a clothes line and struck multiple times with a carpet beater, a labor intensive undertaking performed only during annual spring-cleaning. As early as the mid-nineteenth century, the need for a better method of cleaning carpets inspired Ives W. McGaffey to devise a machine to remove dirt from carpets. McGaffey is credited as the man who invented the first carpet cleaner, though his contraption had a hand crank instead of a motor. It was difficult to use, as one hand cranked and the other pushed the machine across the carpet.

The Bissell Carpet Sweepers Company was founded in 1876 by Melville Bissell when he devised a carpet cleaner to clean sawdust from carpeting. His company is still in operation today.

Corinne Dufour patented a carpet sweeper in 1900, the first driven by electricity. The suction was caused by a reverse fan, and it pulled surface dirt into a wet sponge. Neighborhood women in Savannah, Georgia were recruited to assemble it.

In 1901, Hubert Cecil Booth patented the first electrically powered carpet cleaner using a vacuum. After noticing a contraption that blew dust off train seats, he was inspired by the notion that reversing the air flow would be more efficient and would actually lift the dust and dirt and not just blow it around. His machine, called a Puffing Billy, was powered first by an oil engine, and later by an electrical one. He moved this machine from location to location, using a horse-drawn wagon to transport it. Booth’s invention inspired the creation of the British Vacuum Cleaner Company that continued to refine Booth’s first vacuum cleaner for many years.

These basic attempts at creating what is now the modern vacuum cleaner were the foundation that was used to find more effective types of cleaners. Many of those early inventions were made by companies formed specifically to manufacture vacuum cleaners and sweepers. Many of those companies are still in existence today.

Walter Griffiths invented a vacuum cleaner in 1905 that was operated by hand using a bellows and a flexible pipe. Attachments could be connected to the hose, and Griffiths is credited with developing the first domestic machine that resembled a modern day vacuum cleaner.

Between the years of 1903 and 1913, a series of patents were granted to David T. Kenney whose inventions formed the basis of the vacuum cleaner industry and the Vacuum Cleaner Manufacturers’ Association in the United States.

P.A. Nilfisk is patented the first European vacuum cleaner in 1910, and what was to become the first Hoover vacuum was invented by James Murray Spangler in 1907. Spangler’s design included a brush that rotated to loosen dirt embedded in carpet. He sold his invention to his wife’s cousin, W. H. Hoover, in 1908. Hoover’s company remains one of the leading manufacturers of electric vacuum cleaners.  

In the years since, many companies have expanded on these basic vacuum cleaners and have added filtration bags, water collection units, beater bars, and even robotic units.

Vacuum Cleaner Reviews

Dyson DC-17 Animal Absolute Upright
Electrolux C101 Perfect Powerteam Canister
Eureka S3686 Sanitaire Professional Canister
Filter Queen 99A Majestic Canister
Hoover S3341 Constellation Canister
Miele S5280 Callisto Canister
Panasonic MC-V9644 Canister
Rainbow SE Series D4C Canister
Royal Lightweight RY6400 / MRY640 Upright
Sanitaire Precision SP7025 / SP7025A Canister

Product Information

Airway Vacuum Cleaners
Bissell Vacuum Cleaners
Compact Vacuum Cleaners
Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaners
Dyson Vacuum Cleaners
Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka Vacuum Cleaners
Euro-Pro Vacuum Cleaners
Filter Queen Vacuum Cleaners
GE Vacuum Cleaners
Hoover Vacuum Cleaners
Insterstate Vacuum Cleaners
Kenmore Vacuum Cleaners
Kirby Vacuum Cleaners
Miele Vacuum Cleaners
Nutone Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Vacuum Cleaners
Panasonic Vacuum Cleaners
Pro-Vac Vacuum Cleaners
Rainbow Vacuum Cleaners
Regina Vacuum Cleaners
Rexair Vacuum Cleaners
Riccar Vacuum Cleaners
Royal Vacuum Cleaners
Samsung Vacuum Cleaners
Sanitaire Vacuum Cleaners
Sanyo Vacuum Cleaners
Sears Vacuum Cleaners
Sharp Vacuum Cleaners
Shop-Vac Vacuum Cleaners
Simplicity Vacuum Cleaners
Singer Vacuum Cleaners
Tristar Vacuum Cleaners
Windsor Vacuum Cleaners

Vacuum Cleaner Accessories

Bissell Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Dirt Devil Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Panasonic Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories
Shop-Vac Vacuum Cleaner Tools and Accessories