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The Hoover Company is a home appliance company founded in Ohio, United States, in 1908.It also established a major base in the United Kingdom, where it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry during most of the 20th century, to the point where the Hoover brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Patent model of Daniel Hess's carpet sweeper. In 1860 a manual vacuum cleaner was invented by Daniel Hess of West Union, Iowa. Called a "carpet sweeper", it gathered dust with a rotating brush and had a bellows for generating suction. [4] [5] Another early model (1869) was the "Whirlwind", invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The ...
Henry is the brand name given to a cylinder vacuum cleaner made and sold by Numatic International, and is the only mass-produced consumer vacuum cleaner still made in the United Kingdom. [1] It is most notable for its cartoon eyes and mouth on the body of the vacuum cleaner, making a face, with the hose connector or hose as its nose.
A 98% biodegradable or other, [2] slightly moist absorbent cleaning compound may be spread evenly over carpet and brushed or scrubbed in. For small areas, a household hand brush can work such a compound into carpet pile; working like "tiny sponges", the attracted cleaning solution dissolves dirt, and dirt and grime is attracted/absorbed to the compound.
Hoover index, Edgar Malone Hoover's inequality measure; Lockheed S-3 Viking, nicknamed Hoover; Operation Hoover; Hoover Institution, a public-policy think tank at Stanford University founded by Herbert Hoover, later US president; Hoover League, created by the Republican Party to campaign for the re-election of U.S. president Herbert Hoover
Hoovie's Garage is a YouTube channel featuring videos about cars and trucks. The videos are hosted by Tyler Hoover , who also presents "Car Issues" for Motor Trend on Demand . [ 3 ]
Tyler Hoover may refer to: Tyler Hoover, host of the YouTube channel Hoovie's Garage; Tyler Hoover (American football), American football player
Hoover was the first man to fly the experimental predecessor to the Bell X1, the Bell X-T. Per NASA, "He already had the reputation as a cool pilot in tight situations; once, during an instrumentation calibration flight in a NACA SB2C Helldiver the plane's cockpit canopy hood came loose in flight smashing Hoover across the forehead inflicting a ...