Million dollar idea: The vacuum cleaner
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Million dollar idea: The vacuum cleaner

The first powered vacuum cleaners using suction were invented in 1901, with the first portable electric vacuum cleaners coming along a few years later. Now some 100 million are sold every year.

Video journalist: Peter Page

  • 04 May 2018
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