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  2. Manual vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    "This movement was a key design feature as it has a double connected bellows, meaning that movement in either direction created a vacuum." The second person could use the attached hose then to clean the house. The dust was collected in a cotton bag within the machine. An example of this can be seen at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum

  3. The Book of Dust - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Dust is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman, which expands his trilogy His Dark Materials. The books further chronicle the adventures of Lyra Belacqua and her battle against the theocratic organisation known as the Magisterium, and shed more light on the mysterious substance called Dust .

  4. Hubert Cecil Booth - Wikipedia

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    Upon seeing the dust and dirt collected on the underside of the handkerchief, he realized the idea could work. Booth created a large device, [11] driven by an internal combustion engine. Nicknamed the "Puffing Billy", [12] Booth's first petrol-powered, horse-drawn vacuum cleaner relied upon air drawn by a piston pump through a cloth filter. It ...

  5. Vacuum cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the dust is separated in a detachable cylindrical collection vessel or bin. Air and dust are sucked at high speed into the collection vessel at a direction tangential to the vessel wall, creating a fast-spinning vortex. The dust particles and other debris move to the outside of the vessel by centrifugal force, where they fall due to ...

  6. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

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    The full moon in the picture is significant as meetings of the Lunar Circle (renamed the Lunar Society by 1775) were timed to make use of its light when travelling.. Wright met Erasmus Darwin in the early 1760s, probably through their common connection of John Whitehurst, first consulting Darwin about ill health in 1767 when he stayed in the Darwin household for a week. [8]

  7. Dust (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Dust is a 2013 crime novel written by crime author Patricia Cornwell, her 21st book by chronological order in the Kay Scarpetta series. It deals with the murder, of a young girl, which bears peculiar resemblance to numerous preceding deaths and puts the female protagonist, Dr Kay Scarpetta to stare in the face of what could possibly be a deep-seated, high-profile bureaucrat conspiracy and a ...

  8. Mario Zippermayr - Wikipedia

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    Mario Zippermayr was born in Milan, northern Italy, to Austrian parents.He studied in Freiburg and Karlsruhe.In 1927 he earned his doctorate in engineering and in 1938 his habilitation in physics.

  9. Vacuum pump - Wikipedia

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    The Roots blower is one example of a vacuum pump. A vacuum pump is a type of pump device that draws gas particles from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum. The first vacuum pump was invented in 1650 by Otto von Guericke, and was preceded by the suction pump, which dates to antiquity. [1]