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Suck, Don't Blow
Suck, Don't Blow | Jane Furnival
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Launched in 1906, the Puffing Billy was an elaborate machine and the equivalent would cost #2000 to buy in the 1990s. This text follows the chain of false starts and ingenious ideas which have evolved around the modern-day vacuum cleaner.
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“He patented his vacuum cleaner in 1901 and launched the British Vacuum Cleaner Company to market Puffing Billy, as it was called. It was an impressive horse-drawn red box on wheels, like a fire engine, tended by uniformed men who did the cleaning. The petrol-powered engine sucked dust through several hundred feet of flexible tubes, which could be passed through high windows.”

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Suck, Don't Blow | Jane Furnival
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I‘m reading this one for the #readharder “Read a nonfiction book about technology” category while procrastinating on my actual chores.