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When vacuum cleaners came on horse-drawn carriages

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Cleaning your carpets used to literally stop street traffic. The very first powered vacuum cleaners were staggeringly huge, violently loud, gas-powered engines mounted onto large horse-drawn carriages. Workers would park this massive beast directly outside your house and feed hundred-foot-long suction hoses through your living room windows.

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