The Story of the Vacuum
The tale of the vacuum begins long ago when people were struggling to discover an invention that would help them clean up the tiny particles of dust and fuzz that inhabited their lovely carpets and rugs. Realizing that a surface clean wasn’t enough, something was needed to literally “suck” the particles up from out of the rug and into something else that could be disposed of. This needed to be accomplished without discarding the rug itself or doing any harm to it, yet a lot of earlier inventions simply did not grasp the concept as well as the vacuum would grasp it.
From that point, a variety of inventers struggled with various airflow options to try to retrieve the dust and fuzz particles from out of the carpet’s surface. The rugs became thicker as time went on, too, causing more and more complications as to actually getting them to a certain degree of cleanliness. At this point, inventors were frustrated at the constant locking of horns with the world of rug makers and began to wonder if they would ever discover an invention strong enough to overcome the need for rug comfort with the need for a clean place on which to walk or stand or sit.
Discovering the Power of Suction
As mentioned, with thicker carpets began thicker problems for those struggling to clean them. An entire line of inventers started to play around with varieties of air flow, thinking that this air flow issue was the best way in which to clean your rug or carpet. It was decided that a vacuum air flow option was likely the best as it would suck the fragments of material out from any source, like a straw, and would deposit it somewhere. That “somewhere” at this point, however, functioned like a lawnmower without a grab bag for lawn clippings, and so cleaning the carpet began a matter of getting another surface dirty.
This would never do, so the inventors of the vacuum began to come up with the notion of taking care to put a proper grab bag on the back of the vacuum cleaner so to catch the fragments and objects from the rub. This grab bag on the vacuum would serve to a lifesaver and would, literally, change the way people cleaned their carpets from then on. The creators of the vacuum would go down in history as legends and changed the world of cleaning carpets forever.