"The Vacuum Cleaner: A History" by Carroll Gantz

[@someguy_6398]

Honestly the Windtunnel is always going to be one of my favorite hoovers and at that, favorite vacuums ever made. It had it all. The cool front cover storage, embedded dirt indicator, and windtunnel suction channels that gripped the carpet tight and made sure not much would be spit back behind it. They definitely PEAKED with that machine.

[@christianmoore7046]

After seeing this I think I might buy that book!

[@WJCTechyman]

When I was a young kid through the later 80s to the early 90s seeing the Dust Buster in a few houses, particularly my grandparents. I used to, to the ire and dismay of my grand parents, push the power button and just rev it like a sports car while it was hanging on the wall. The dirt devil hand vac you describe here, I have to say, the Shark Rocket we have has the ability to run a miniature power nozzle but I guess the downside is it's a bit more cumbersome to use in tight spaces. I just prefer vacuuming tighter places with either my Rainbow with the newest RainbowMate with the pivot or my central vac with the Wessel-Werk HEB160.

[@seana806]

Wonder if they mentioned anything about the Kirby company in this book. I think the biggest selling point about Kirby’s after the 505 was introduced is you could move the belt lifter to the off position and use it as a straight suction cleaner for hard surface floors, don’t think it was entirely possible with a Hoover unless you manually removed the belt. Think another selling point about Kirby’s was the ability to easily empty the bag out onto a newspaper without spilling the contents onto the floor with something like a Hoover.

[@WJCTechyman]

Not just the versatility of taking the belt on and off but removing the nozzle entirely to use as a straight airflow machine for above the floor use as well as later variants having the ability to be used like a handheld...albeit a very heavy handheld. He glossed right past the first commercial vacuum cleaner by H. Cecil Booth, nicknamed the noisy serpent.