cyclonic vacuum cleaner

Following his success, other major manufacturers began to market their own cyclonic vacuum cleaners.

It was the Japanese who first embraced the idea of a cyclonic vacuum cleaner.

"If you go a few years back we really were a one product company, albeit an iconic product, the cyclonic vacuum cleaner," Conze says.

Dyson: Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaners.

The television advertisement said the Goldair - Shark Thunderbolt Bagless Cyclonic vacuum cleaner had 100% suction all of the time.

Take the inclusion of the G-Force Cyclonic vacuum cleaner, a large pink plastic machine that looks like a cross between the Pompidou Centre and an ice cream sundae.

Sir James Dyson, the British industrial designer, is best known for the innovative, high-performance appliances that bear the family name — cyclonic vacuum cleaners with powerful suction and fans that generate a breeze without blades.

Sir James, whose wealth is estimated at £1.5bn, launched his new take on the wheelbarrow in the Seventies and became a household name with his cyclonic vacuum cleaners, before turning his attention to hand dryers and fans.

Dyson, the design company known for its bagless cyclonic vacuum cleaners that maintain suction even as they fill with debris, shared an Achilles heel with even the most plebeian vacuums -the nuisance of tangling hair.

Cleveland's P.A. Geier Company had obtained a patent on a cyclonic vacuum cleaner as early as 1928, which was later sold to Health-Mor in 1939, introducing the Filter Queen cyclonic canister vacuum cleaner.

G-Force cyclonic vacuum cleaner by James Dyson, 1986 When he was unable to find support for his invention in the UK, James Dyson launched the G-Force, the first bag-less cyclonic vacuum cleaner, onto the market in Japan.