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Born in Gloucester in 1871, Hubert Cecil Booth was an engineer known for inventing one of the first electric vacuum cleaners.
Before its release, cleaning machines blew or swept dirt instead of vacuuming it.
His first horse-drawn petrol vacuum cleaner was too large to be introduced into the building, but it was built on the same principles as the modern ones.
He went to Gloucester College and Gloucester County School and learned under the direction of the school Rev. H. Lloyd Brereton.
When he was 18, he pbaded the entrance exam and entered Central Technical College, later known as City & Guilds Engineering College, London.
His teacher was William Cawthorne Unwin and Booth spent three years studying civil engineering and mechanical engineering.
When he finished his studies (second in his clbad), he found a job at Maudsley, Sons & Field, in a company already famous for its engineers.
Between 1984 and 1898, he designed Ferris wheels for amusement parks in London, Blackpool, Paris and Vienna that had diameters from 83m to 92m. In 1899 he designed a steel factory in Belgium. A year later, he opened a consulting firm in London.
Booth continued to do engineering, and from 1903 to 1940 he designed and built steel railway bridges, mills, and other types of metal structures.
Booth died on January 14, 1955 in Croydon, England.
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