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Thread Number: 28009
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Article: The First Hair Dryer Was The Vacuum Cleaner! |
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| Post# 312966 1/22/2015 at 20:02 (3,375 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California) | ||
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| Post# 312993 , Reply# 1 1/22/2015 at 22:58 (3,374 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 313038 , Reply# 2 1/23/2015 at 12:21 (3,374 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
Hair dryer.
Air-Way offered this feature in 1920 on the first upright. That may be what the article's talking about. Electrolux also claimed it could be used as a hair dryer starting with the model X1. Eureka had a special hair drying tool on an early hand vac, in fact, that's one of the pictures used in the Vacuum of the day feature here.
Any vacuum with a hose would do if you hook the hose to the blower end and set it near an oven door. Actually, that's not nessecery, as the motor itself creates warm air, but Air-Way didn't think of that in 1920 when they put out the instruction book. | ||
| Post# 313042 , Reply# 3 1/23/2015 at 12:48 (3,374 days old) by ralph123 (Little Rock, AR) | ||
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I use my Lux tank in blower mode as a hair dryer for my dog. It works great. The dog hasn't once complained. She tolerates it better than the hot air from a hair dryer. | ||
| Post# 313056 , Reply# 4 1/23/2015 at 13:52 (3,374 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
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| Post# 313074 , Reply# 5 1/23/2015 at 14:38 (3,374 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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Hair dryer. | ||
| Post# 314827 , Reply# 6 2/7/2015 at 08:30 (3,359 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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VOD | ||
Post# 314838 , Reply# 7 2/7/2015 at 12:46 (3,359 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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~ The Eureka Junior hand-vac from the early 1930s had an amazing hair-dryer attachment. It contained a heater element! It connected to the blower of the machine and there was a short plug that connected to the side of the motor. Here's a YouTube video. (This guy has lots of interesting videos in his YouTube channel -- vacuum cleaners, electric fans, lawn mowers, sirens, animals ... all sorts of fun stuff! Does anyone know him? Is he a member here by any chance?) CLICK HERE TO GO TO electrolux137's LINK | ||
| Post# 314871 , Reply# 8 2/7/2015 at 22:12 (3,358 days old) by kirbysthebest (Midwest) | ||
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Rainbow Used to have a hairdryer attachment. If I remember so did Fairfax, and Filterqueen. | ||
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