This is the first vacuum cleaner, the 1905 Skinner Vacuum, from the Hoover Company.

Got a broom?

This is a vacuum cleaner.

like a little vacuum cleaner.

What's that? An automatic vacuum cleaner.

And all we've got is a Roomba.

Another broomstick broken over your head.

All we got is a new broom. Mornin'. Hi, Will.

What of it, if some old hunks of a sea captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?

The whole wall is her canvas. She's sitting there with a broom.

This is the first vacuum cleaner, the 1905 Skinner Vacuum, from the Hoover Company. And this one weighed 92 pounds and took two people to operate and cost a quarter of a car.

This was truly, truly an early adopter product the 1905 Skinner Vacuum.

Since she happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, she tried to tickle

This was truly, truly an early adopter product (Laughter) the 1905 Skinner Vacuum.

And Mr Canon told me I would never have to push another broom again as long as I live.

It's fair lovely in spring an' summer when th' gorse an' broom an' heather's in flower.

I should say so, said the cleaning woman and, by way of proof, poked Gregor's body with the broom a considerable distance more to the side.

Might not the basket, stable broom, mat making, corn parching, linen spinning, and pottery business have thrived here, making the wilderness to blossom like the rose, and a numerous posterity have inherited the land of their fathers?

Just you wait till you see th' gold colored gorse blossoms an' th' blossoms o' th' broom, an' th' heather flowerin', all purple bells, an' hundreds o' butterflies flutterin' an' bees hummin' an' skylarks soarin' up an' singin'.

Thus, in 1990, 70.10 per cent of households had an electric water heater, 86.61 per cent a refrigerator, 72.39 per cent a vacuum cleaner, 64.24 per cent a washing machine and 35.03 per cent a motor car.