Hi collector 2
The oldest built-in vacuum cleaner was 1899! The inventor was John S. Thurman of St. Louis, Mo.. He was also the man who gave us the first Electric vacuum cleaner.
The year was 1901 when Cecil H. Booth perfected his vacuum cleaner in London, England. What we call the central vac, was known as the stationary vacuum cleaner back then. Several prominant homes like the Biltmor House in Ashville, No Carolina installed one in 1899.
John S. Thurman was the first giant in the vacuum cleaner industry, and because of him, people like James B. Kirby, Boss Hoover and countless others took the ball and ran with it.
One of the finest stationary vacuum cleaner I've ever seen was the Spencer, which is located in the Fox theater in St. Louis, Mo. and the man who showed it to me was my dear friend, our own, Stan Kann.
Another popular built in was one called the Arco wand. Back at the turn of the century (1900) the stationary, or built in were rare as hen's teeth, and only for the extremely welthy. I've heard that there was a central vac on the Titanic, but this has never been proven. In fact Robert Ballard who discovered the Titanic never responded to my letter asking that very question.
The Central vacuum cleaner has a very interesting past, one I know very little about.
