TIL Vacuum Cleaners Precede Electricity

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Yep, you read the title right. Apparently the vacuum cleaner came out before electricity!

Well maybe not before, more like around the same time, but back then vacuum cleaners didn't use any electricity, but instead relied on energy produced manually by the human body, much like manual lawn mowers, to produce suction. Hence their name, manual vacuum cleaner.

Manual vacuum cleaners first appeared around the second half of the 19th century and were slowly replaced by electric vacuum cleaners after 1910.

They used various means to create suction by either a pumping action, bellows, a piston being pushed up and down a tube, or with a fan driven by the wheels. Having said that, most models required two people to generate enough sucking force. There were however less efficient models that one person was enough.

The baby daisy was one of the first manual vacuum cleaners that appeared sometime in 1890 in France. Here's a quick video I found explaining and showing how it worked:

And here's another manual vacuum cleaner from 1911. Damn, it just looks so tiring and...idiotic, lmao

I am just so glad these things belong to the past. And by "I", I mean my wife lol 😆

Anyways, here's a link to wikipedia if you'd like to educate yourself further on this totally useless subject.



By the way, while writing this post I came across this video showcasing an electric vacuum cleaner from 1923:

I swear to God, this is the sexiest sound I have ever heard coming from an electric device!

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Boy, I'm glad I don't have to vacuum with that thing...I would never get anything done lol.

It looks like as great device to get tendonitis 😆

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No electricity but still automatic :)

same technology works to wash your otter
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Tornadoes appeared even earlier and are capable of swallowing whole cities and the trailer house where Doratti lived with dust and transferring it to the land of Oz... can modern vacuum cleaners do that? !LOLZ :) !BEER

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Makes me glad we don't live back in the stone ages... That 1923 Hoover was a marked improvement over the first ones! lol
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I'd love to have one lol

Man those old vacuum cleaners are so tedious. I don't think I would like them so I am glad that technology has developed enough that it's not as large of an issue.

Funny how I had theorized about this but never have I been bored enough to actually Google it 😂😂😂

The 1923 vacuum cleaner does sound nice 😂😂

Yeah, it's one sexy sound lol

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That’s nuts…. Where do you find this stuff….🤦🏻

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Damn, it just looks so tiring and...idiotic

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When I was a teenager we lived in an attic apartment. There was a rug-covered, winding staircase that led to our door. My mother would have one of us sweep those stairs once a week. Boy was there dust. Still, it seems to be less onerous (and probably more effective) than your manual vacuum. Can't imagine using that thing for three flights, let alone one room.

Yeah, id just let my place dirty. Or get a few slaves 😄

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Amazing 😮
And such an interesting post about sucking!

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That doesn't surprise me , but it is cool that you brought! many of our appliances came before electricity, for sure oven is more logical for thinking about it ;)

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