Hubert Cecil Booth: Google celebrates 147th birth anniversary of British inventor

Today's doodle is dedicated to the British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth, the man who gave the world first powered vacuum cleaners, on his 147th birthday. Born in Gloucester in 1871, Hubert Cecil Booth was an engineer best known for inventing one of the first powered vacuum cleaners. Before his version, cleaning machines just blew or brushed dirt away, instead of sucking it up.