Terri Kirby Erickson found both perspiration and inspiration in her old Hoover vacuum cleaner. The North Carolina poet, who lives near Winston-Salem, didn't know all the sordid details of the rise and ...

NORTH CANTON — A hundred years ago, 160 of the best salesmen in the world made a pilgrimage to North Canton, the one-time capital of vacuum cleaners. Men, like Lloyd Doolittle and Fred Roake, came ...

The Hoover brand got its start in Ohio in the early 1900s when an asthmatic department store janitor, James Spangler, jerry-rigged an electric fan, soap box and a carpet sweeper into a device that ...

In a hundred nations, the name Hoover suggests not J. Edgar or Herbert but a vacuum cleaner, and some people use it as a verb as well as a noun. Ohio’s 55-year-old Hoover Co., the world’s oldest and ...

Who would have thought that vacuum cleaners could be interesting? The usual consumer, bombarded by advertising, chooses what seems to be the best sweeper to meet needs and price, and doesn’t really ...