With the invention of Carpet, the invention of a Carpet cleaning machine was not far away. The first hand held Carpet cleaning machine was designed and tested in the 1860s in Chicago, while the first power operated vacuum machine was invented in the early 1900s by an English man named H. Cecil Booth.
At around the same time as H. Cecil Booths invention, a man by the name of James Murray Spangler came up with his own vacuum cleaner invention, which he later sold to his c…