Hubert cecil booth pronunciation
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Hubert Booth, Born 1871
Inventor of the Vacuum cleaner
Hubert Cecil Booth was an English engineer best known for having invented in 1901 the first powered vacuum cleaner. He also designed Ferris wheels, suspension bridges and factories. His Ferris Wheels included the great 200 foot high Vienna Ferris Wheel known as the Wiener Riesenrad, which was constructed in 1897. Later he became Chairman and Managing Director of the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. Before Booth’s invention of the vacuum cleaner equivalent machines (such as that patented in 1899 by the American John Thurman) had blown rather than sucked the dust. This was far from satisfactory, as the dust went everywhere. Seeing a demonstration of one of these machines at the Empire Music Hall in London, Booth had the insight that it would be better to suck than blow. His first machine (shown above) was so large that it had to be parked in the street on a horse-drawn wagon. Long suction pipes extended from the machine through the windows of the house in
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Grace's Guide To British Industrial History
Hubert Cecil Booth (1871-1955) of British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co, inventor of the mechanically-powered vacuum cleaner, civil engineer
1871 July 4th. Hubert Cecil Booth was born in Gloucester the son of Abraham Booth, a lumber merchant
1881 Living at Belle View House, South Hamlet, Gloucester (age 9 born Gloucester). With his four brothers, visitors and servants. No listing of parents. [1]
1889 Moved to London to study engineering at the City and Guilds College (Central Technical College).
Joined Maudslay, Sons and Field under Charles Sells, where his first job was as a draughtsman helping design engines for Royal Navy battleships.
1891 Cecil Booth listed as a boarder in St Mary's Square, Paddington (age 19 born Gloucester). No trade. [2]
Designed bridges in Britain and overseas. Also designed big wheels for Paris, Vienna, Earl's Court and Blackpool
1900 Booth saw a demonstration of a new cleaning machine for railway cars that took the dust from one side of the car and sent it (blew it) to a
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Hubert Cecil Booth - Biography and Facts
Hubert Cecil Booth (1871 - 1955) was a British engineer who and inventor of the first powered vacuum cleaner among other things.
H.C. Booth was born in Gloucester, England on July 4th, 1871. His father was a lumber merchant Abraham Booth, and he had five brothers. He went to Gloucester College and Gloucester County School and learned under headmaster of the school Reverend H. Lloyd Brereton. When he was 18, he passed the entrance examination and entered Central Technical College, later known as the City & Guilds Engineering College, London. His professor there was William Cawthorne Unwin and Booth spent three years there studying civil engineering and mechanical engineering. When he finished college (as a second in his class), he found a job at the firm of Maudsley, Sons & Field, in a firm that was at that time already famous for its engineers. Between 1894 and 1898 he designed Ferris wheels for amusement parks in London, Blackpool, Paris, and Vienna that had diameters from 83m to 92m. In 1899, he designed steel factory in Belgium. A y
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