Editing Vacuum cleaner (section)

===Powered vacuum cleaners===
{{Further|Hubert Cecil Booth#Vacuum cleaner|David T. Kenney}}
[[File:Vacuum Cleaner 1906.jpg|upright|thumb|[[Maid|Housemaid]] using "dedusting pump", {{Circa}} 1906]]

The end of the 19th century saw the introduction of powered cleaners, although early types used some variation of blowing air to clean instead of suction.<ref name="Gantz, Carroll 2012 p. 45">Gantz, Carroll (21 Sep 2012). ''The Vacuum Cleaner: A History''. McFarland, p. 45.</ref> One appeared in 1898 when John S. Thurman of [[St. Louis]], Missouri, submitted a patent (U.S. No. 634,042) for a "pneumatic carpet renovator" which blew dust into a receptacle.<ref name="americanheritage">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2006/4/2006_4_4.shtml|title=The Vacuum Cleaner|author=Wohleber, Curt|date=Spring 2006|access-date=8 December 2010|work=Invention & Technology Magazine|publisher=American Heritage Publishing|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313170420/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2006/4/2006_4_4.shtml|archive-date=13 March 2010}}</ref> Thurman's system, powered by an [[internal combustion engine]], traveled to the customer's residence on a horse-drawn wagon as part of a door-to-door cleaning service. Corrine Dufour of [[Savannah, Georgia]], received two patents in 1899 and 1900 for another blown-air system that seems to have featured the first use of an electric motor.<ref name="Gantz, Carroll 2012 p. 45"/>

In 1901, powered vacuum cleaners using suction were invented independently by British engineer [[Hubert Cecil Booth]] and American inventor [[David T. Kenney]].<ref name="Gantz, Carroll 2012 p. 49">Gantz, Carroll (21 Sep 2012). ''The Vacuum Cleaner: A History''. McFarland, p. 49.</ref><ref name="americanheritage"/> Booth also may have coined the word "vacuum cleaner".<ref name="Gantz, Carroll 2012 p. 49"/> Booth's horse-drawn combustion-engine-powered "Puffing Billy",<ref name="bbc_booth">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1515776.stm|title=Sucking up to the vacuum cleaner|date=30 August 2001|work=BBC News|access-date=6 December 2010}}</ref> maybe derived from Thurman's blown-air design,<ref name="BVC">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bvc.co.uk/history.html|title=The Story of the Vacuum Cleaner|work=bvc.co.uk|access-date=1 November 2013|archive-date=4 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504015332/http://bvc.co.uk/history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> relied upon just suction with air pumped through a cloth filter and was offered as part of his cleaning services. Kenney's was a stationary {{Cvt|4000|lb}} steam-engine-powered system with pipes and hoses reaching into all parts of the building.