Sjöberg Bildbyrå Erich Conard
Vacuum cleaners at the turn of the century 1800-1900 - Poster on matte paper in museum quality
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Vacuum cleaners at the turn of the century.
In the 19th century and before electricity was available in homes and businesses, vacuum cleaners were primitive dusting devices. Here is a recreated historical image in a home environment typical of the time and with a hand-operated vacuum cleaner. The young woman creates a vacuum and a sucking air stream using the hand-operated lever, and the slightly older housekeeper carefully vacuums the gentleman's fine sofa.
It was not until 1901 that the first patent was registered for an electric vacuum cleaner. Over time, the vacuum cleaner developed and the American Murray Spangler refined the invention by sucking the dust into a vacuum cleaner bag. In Sweden, Axel Wenner-Gren, who was then employed by the company Elektromekaniska, began to improve the vacuum cleaner and its function with a turbine. The model was called Model 1. A 14-kilo machine. Production started in 1913 in the Lux factory at Lilla Essingen in Stockholm and Elektromekaniska supplied the motors.
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