William Henry Hoover


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Noun1.William Henry Hoover - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)William Henry Hoover - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
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In 1907, William Henry Hoover produced the first commercial bag-on-a-stick upright vacuum cleaner in Ohio, USA, after buying the patent from his wife's cousin, James Murray Spangler.
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William Henry Hoover produced his first cleaner in the US in 1908.
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He patented an electric suction sweeper in 1907 and sold the idea to industrialist William Henry Hoover.
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