The idea for the first vacuum cleaner came from an invention much like a leaf blower only it was meant to blow dust out of rail cars. Hubert Booth, an English inventor, asked the demonstrator why the device didn't just suck the dust up instead of blow it around and was told it was impossible. Mr. Booth thought not and got to work on what he called Puffing Billy which was big, red, gasoline powered, loud and had to be pulled from job to job by horses. As time went on he made the device smaller and smaller until in 1908 the first electric powered vacuum was introduced by the Electric Suction Sweeper Company (later renamed Hoover) and the start of housework sucking began.
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