Vacu-Magic—The World's Tiniest Vacuum Cleaner in '62
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cheesewonton
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Oh my! Now the search is on for information on this vacuum ( down the rabbit hole we go ............... )
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centralsweeper63
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Very, very cool. I will keep an eye out.
And they didn't have tiny houses back then for tiny vacuums.
centralsweeper63
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How do you mean?
cheesewonton
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Huh? Houses from the 1940s and 1950s were a lot smaller than most new homes built in the last 20 years.
I heard that individuals on average were shorter a century and more ago; which is why many pre- and turn-of the 20th century period regular houses have lower ceilings.
Getting back to Vacu-Magic, I can imagine how tricky it would be to empty the bag or change out the disposable one!
Getting back to Vacu-Magic, I can imagine how tricky it would be to empty the bag or change out the disposable one!
cheesewonton
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That is very true. If you go into some of the pre-Revolutionary War homes in Boston the ceilings are only 6 feet tall and the door frames lower than that. The overheads ( nautical speak for ceilings ) on the USS Constitution are even lower. When I visited her I had to walk stooped over everywhere below decks.I heard that individuals on average were shorter a century and more ago; which is why many pre- and turn-of the 20th century period regular houses have lower ceilings.
Getting back to Vacu-Magic, I can imagine how tricky it would be to empty the bag or change out the disposable one!
kirbylux77
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A vacuum that cleans the record needle while the record plays? I don't think that counts as a "vacuum cleaner" LOL!
huskyvacs
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This is one of those things you need to see in action to believe it, and I would wager none exist anymore. Makes me wonder if it was just a gimmick and it was just statically charged or something.
I have a Philco prewar tube radio that has the very very rare "beam of light" tonearm that plays records using a very bright light. They did not survive through all these decades and into the 2010s and 2020s and most all of them found today have been thrown away when they broke and replaced with a basic tonearm. My radio needs repairs, but hopefully it will work, its all complete and all its factory parts are all in place. I can't believe that technology existed so long ago when it would be another 40 years from that that the CD player and the laser lens would be invented.
I have a Philco prewar tube radio that has the very very rare "beam of light" tonearm that plays records using a very bright light. They did not survive through all these decades and into the 2010s and 2020s and most all of them found today have been thrown away when they broke and replaced with a basic tonearm. My radio needs repairs, but hopefully it will work, its all complete and all its factory parts are all in place. I can't believe that technology existed so long ago when it would be another 40 years from that that the CD player and the laser lens would be invented.
cheesewonton
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If you look at the first link I provided there was indeed a real live vacuum cleaner suspended on springs inside the console. The paragraph describing it said the fan was from a household vacuum but was spun by a record player motor. You can see the suction hose in the tone arm in the images in the links.
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