Suck, Don’t Blow!
The Gripping Story of the Vacuum Cleaner
and Other Labour Saving Machines Around the House
By Jane Furnival
Dec. 1998
ISBN: 1-85479-365-9
180 p. Illus.
$19.95 Cloth
Here is the untold history of the machines that make our modern everyday life possible: washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, dishwashers, irons, and, of course, vacuum cleaners. This book looks behind the wheels and wires to the stunts, power struggles and crazy, inspired inventors who made housework what it is today.