The first successful vacuum cleaner was created by Hubert Cecil Booth in 1901 - it was about the size of a milk float.
William Henry Hoover produced his first cleaner in the US in 1908.
Axel Wenner-Gren produced his first cleaner, the Lux 1, in Sweden in 1912 - his company would later become Electrolux.
In 1955 the first reusable vacuum cleaner bags were introduced.
James Dyson introduced the Cyclon Model 1000 - the first bagless dual cyclone cleaner - in 1983.