The End
- Its size.
- Had to be transported by horses.
- Costs was 4 dollars a visit.
- You couldn't keep it.
- It didn't fit into peoples homes.
Cons
Carpet Beater
Before Vacuum Cleaner
- Before Vacuum Cleaners, in order to clean rugs you had to hang them on a wall or line and beat them with a carpet beater.
- This process usually occurred only one time of the year during the spring.
- Later in his life he turned his attention to other things.
- In the 1920s he founded the Thurman Vacuum Cotton Harvester Company.
- He marketed a Pneumatic Machine that helped cotton pickers pick cotton.
After His Invention
Designing Process
- When John Thurman was designing his vacuum cleaner he collect ideas from previous inventors who made similar devices this.
- One inventor that he found as an inspiration when it came to inventing was Ives Mcgaffey.
The Whirlwind's patent
- Ives Mcgaffey invented a sweeping machine that could clean rugs in 1869.
- It was the first hand pump vacuum cleaner in the United States at the time. He called it the Whirlwind.
John
Thurman
Controversially, the inventor of the first vacuum cleaner.
Attachments and Improvements
The Pneumatic Carpet Renovator
- By 1906 he offered a built in cleaning
system that used compressed air, but there
was still no dust collection
- He also electrified his gasoline
powered machine.
- Was a gasoline powered vacuum, invented it in 1899.
- It blew dust and debris from the carpet or floor into a reciprocal.
- Simplified housework.
- Made for the General Compressed Air Company.
- When it was brought to people's houses it had to be set up outside and hoses for the air were placed through the windows and doors.
Pros
What People Thought
- By definition a vacuum cleaner is an electrical appliance that is used for cleaning, floors and carpets using suction.
- So technically John Thurman didn't really invent a vacuum cleaner but a sweeping machine. That is why he is controversially the inventor of the first vacuum cleaner.
Augustus Hand
- Said that John Thurman's "vacuum cleaner" doesn't appear to have attempted to design a vacuum cleaner, or to have understood the process of vacuum cleaning.
What He and His Invention Did
- He gave home-owners a way to clean their floors.
- He kept driving the competition forward, causing it to progress quickly.
- Without John Thurman, it is likely that we would not have progressed as much as we have today in vacuum technology.