The Robo-Vac

[electrolux137]

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I came across this photo on-line tonight. I wonder if the Robo-Vac was just a prototype or was actually manufactured.

As Billy Lipman would say, "HAVE you EVER??!"

 

[rugsucker]

Whirlpool

Great color picture that I had not seen but was also in Life magazine of about 58 or 59.As noted it was one part of a future kitchen but the only appliance available later was the Whirlpool Washer Dryer Combo.The prototype vac would clean the floor and then park itself under the base cabinet while recharging.The basic shape of this was also on the deluxe RCA Whirlpool canister vacs that had one of the early power nozzles.There was also a video of the future kitchen.

 

[super-sweeper]

makes you wonder,

If it ran on it's on nuclear reactor, with it's own plutonium chamber and all! Only a few years before did this nuclear wonder emerge as a concept!


 


First one to name the company and this car's name wins an invisible HOOVER!

 

[rugsucker]

Name That Car

Ford and Cyclon (?) While waiting to see if I won the H r I may check part of my 12 feet of auto reference including G Barris and other CA greats,Presidential cars,V Exner & H Earl biographies,limos including J Hendrix purple Cadillac,Tucker,Delorean,Chrysler Turbine,GM Motorama and more & more both early and late and more and more both concept and production and more and more both US and foriegn.

 

[super-sweeper]

<p style="text-align: justify;">Jimmy (may I call you Jimmy?),</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">You're close enough, that there is the infamous Ford Nucleon, the car that never made it past the 3-foot model stage for obvious reasons (mainly taking out half the city in a fender-bender!

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Your invisible HOOVER is hidden somewhere in your warehouse, it has a water proof bag and is in a lovely pale turquoise color, happy hunting!

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[rugsucker]

Nucleon !

I later found the above dated 1955(as pictured) & 1958 with huge tail fins.With nuclear submarines a reality the future was to have allowed us to drive the Nucleon for 2 years without refueling as more of our power was nuclear and a place called Three Mile Island was barely known in PA.(There is a great 2 page GE ad in Fortune that shows the GE scientists who will run the reactors in their white lab coats and also shows the 50s housewife in her apron who will run the GE appliances including the Roll Easy!)
The other nuclear prediction was a remark by Alex Lewyt,who seems to have never turned down a chance to get his name in the news,that the future might include a nuclear vacuum!And then with fiction being stranger than truth Gragham Greenes 'Our Man in Havana'had a British spy working out of a vac store featuring the 'Atomic' model even though they explain"there is really nothing atomic about it."
Thanks for the invisible H----r.I hope the visible ones don't crowd it off the shelf.

 

[singingrainbow]

Here is a video I found of the "Miracle Kitchen" in action along with the robo vac, sooo neat!
Scott

http://cyberneticzoo.com/early-serv...leaner-donald-g-moore-rca-whirlpool-american/