the function of today’s Canister Vacuum Cleaner

In today’s world, we use a number of items that make our day-to-day lives much easier. However, the evidence of the persons responsible for inventing many of these products is quite ambiguous. One such item is the Vacuum cleaner. It seems possible that the invention of a unit that performs the function of today’s Canister Vacuum Cleaner was probably begun by one person, but was brought to fruition by a completely different person. It is known to all that the vacuum cleaner functions to suck the dust and prevent it from flying about and settling onto surfaces after the cleaning process. Various possible techniques were developed to clean the difficult-to-trap dust. History relates that in the early 1800’s, rugs were placed as carpets on the wooden flooring in order to trap the dust and reduce the amount of dust flying about. Housewives or the domestic staff performed the task of cleaning these carpets to have the dust removed from them. The common method of doing this was to hang the rug onto a rope or sum surface out in the open, and then ‘beat’ it with a stick to whack the dust out of it. Thus, the original idea of trapping dust onto a rug probably was probably the forerunner of the invention of the vacuum cleaner.