The History of the vacuum On June 8, 1869, Chicago inventor Ives McGaffey patented a vacuum, this was a patent for absorb dirtiness also cleaned rugs and more, it was not a motorized vacuum cleaner. McGaffey called his machine wood and canvas contraption the Whirlwind. Today it is known as the first hand-pumped vacuum cleaner in the United States. On June 8, 1869, Chicago inventor McGaffey patented a "sweeping machine." While this was the first patent for a device that cleaned, it was not a motorized vacuum cleaner. McGaffey called his machine -- vacuum -- the Whirlwind. Today it is known as the first hand-pumped vacuum cleaner in the United States. British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patented a motor of the vacuum cleaner on August 30, 1901. …show more content…
Air-Way also created the first 2-motor upright vacuum as well as the first power nozzle vacuum cleaner. Air-Way also was first to use a seal on the dirtbag and first to use a filter on a vacuum cleaner, a vacuum cleaner. In a resident of West Union, Iowa, called his invention a carpet sweeper, not a vacuum. This sweeper did have a rotating brush like other sweepers, however, the machine also possessed a great mechanism on top of the sweeper to generate suction. The amazing thing about his machine was that it incorporated water chambers to capture the dust and fine dirt, He states that the air is cleaned as it passes through things and gets the must little trash. There is no record that this machine was every produced because every vacuum has something that does special. Also in 1860, a vacuum was invented by Daniel Hess, that gathered dust with a rotating brush and a bellows for generating suction. Another early model was the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The bulky device worked with a belt is driven by a fan, by the hand, it made it awkward to operate, although it was commercially marketed with success. Also, a similar model was constructed by Melville R. Bissell of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1876. The company later added portable vacuum cleaners to its line of cleaning
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.(14 Feb. 1859-22 Nov. 1896) was a civil engineer/ construction engineer who invented the Ferris Wheel. George Ferris was born in Galesburg, Illinois to farmers, George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. and Martha Edgerton Hyde Ferris. He lived with his 4 sisters and 2 brothers. When Ferris 5 years old his family sold their farm and headed toward San Jose, California. Unfortunately in the middle of their journey they ran out of money and had to settle in Carson City. In Carson City they made a ranch and Ferris helped his father farm for 9 years before going to California Military Academy in 1873. In 1876 he graduated and applied for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York to study civil engineering.
The women were using sewing machines. These machines were invented by many different people, but the first inventor to get a patent on the machine was Ellis Howe. This patent was awarded in 1846.
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The modern cotton gin was created by Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented a year later in 1794.
Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor who invented the reaper. The reaper was a farming tool that helped Farmers all through the US. It was a tool for cutting and harvesting grain. McCormick started working on this machine in 1820. By the time 1831, when the actual machine could be used, the reaper could cut six acres of oats in one day. The reaper could also cut 20 acres of Wheat in a day. It was a device pulled by four horses and could do the work of six men. Since he knew his invention would do well, he set up his headquarters in Chicago, where he sold thousands of these reapers. Later he entered the reaper into London’s Great Exhibition, where he won first prize and made him an instant celebrity, making $1.25 million in profits.
The first man who had a hand in the steam engine was Thomas Savery. In 1698, Savery patented an “engine to raise water by fire”. The machine was used as a pump, which began by water being heated to vaporize it, causing it to fill a tank with steam, then the steam created a vacuum by isolating the tank from the steam source and condensing the steam....
The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney while he was in Georgia working as a tutor for Catherine Greene. After looking at the slaves working tiresomely trying to remov...
A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to suck up dirt into a dust bag for later disposal. In Howard Nemerov's "The Vacuum," a widowed husband mourns the death of his wife while he observes their vacuum in his quiet house. As he studies the vacuum he notices it "sulks in the corner closet" (line 2). His observation sets the tone for the poem and personifying the household device. As he continues to personify the vacuum throughout the poem, he notes the lifelessness of the vacuum, memories of his wife using the vacuum, and how "life is cheap as dirt" (line 13) but dirt is still everywhere even when she is gone. The speaker in "The Vacuum," uses the vacuum cleaner to symbolize his wife's death, the connection to his wife, and how he perceives his life after her death.
His first invention was a lubricator for steam engines, U.S. 129,843, which issued on July 12, 1872. The invention allowed machines to remain in motion to be oiled; his new oiling device revolutionized the industrial machine industry.
Norbert Rillieux invented the triple effect vacuum evaporator. The "triple effect" is for the multiple things that the system does all at the same time. The "vacuum" is for the vacuum of air that is used in the system, and the "evaporator" is for the sugarcane liquid syrup that is heated and evaporated into regular sugar. The actual system is somewhat complicated, so please see the picture that is provided.
The year 1887 was a busy one for Nikola Tesla, in the months of November and December alone he filed for seven patents for AC motors and power transmissions. These ideas caught the attention of George Westinghouse who bought them from him seeing their potential. One of his most important inventions Westinghouse bought was the transformer. With a transformer, an AC distribution system can allow a large amount of power to be transmitted at high voltages over long ...
John Kay, an English weaver invented the flying shuttle, a product that could cut cotton twice as fast. When other inventors saw what Kay had made, they wanted to do the same. One problem still remained. Yarn was not being fed fast enough through the weaver, but in 1769, two new inventions solved the problem. The spinning jenny and the water-powered frame, both of which fed yarn through the flying shuttle faster. Cleaning the cotton was a boring and time consuming job, so in 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The gin cleaned cotton up to 50 times faster than a human could.
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The first technology was known as the Mailbox . It may seem like a unrealistic name but it was acually a real thing. It was first created by a man named Mel Fisher, the mailbox is a tube made out of metal and has a angle of 90 degrees. This machine sends jets down to the ocean floor which moves the sand away. This wasn't as much of a advancement as the sattelite because it was a heavy load to carry around with you and if you have a small boat it was be dragging you down. My evidence to support my answer is on paragraph 8 in, "Florida Waters Treasure Hunters" it states, "A mailbox is a large metal tube that is bent 90 degrees, like a elbow. The tube has a diameter several inches larger than the width of the boats propellers." This exemplifies
Charles Babbage designed many inventions, including “a cow-catcher for the front end of railway locomotives, failsafe quick release couplings for railway carriages, multi-coloured theatre lighting, an altimeter, a seismic detector, a tugboat for winching vessels upstream, a ‘hydrofoil’, and an arcade game for members of the public to challenge in a game of tic-tac-toe” (Computer History). He also designed the Difference Engine No. 1, which was the first functioning...