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The Hoover vacuum cleaner was named after W.H. Hoover. He was the owner of a leather goods manufacturing shop who bought the patent for a suction sweeper from a janitor Mr. Spangler. W.H. Hoover then retained Mr. Spangler as a partner in 1908.

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