About
Best known as the inventor of the vacuum cleaner, this English engineer also designed ships for the Royal Navy and Ferris wheels and bridges for numerous European amusement parks.
Before Fame
After studying mechanical and civil engineering at London's Central Technical College, he began his career at the Maudslay Sons & Field firm in the Lambeth district of London.
Trivia
He devised his idea for the modern vacuum cleaner after watching a failed railway cleaning demonstration.
Family Life
He married the daughter of flour mill owner Francis Tring Pearce.
Associated With
Building upon the ideas of Booth and W.H. Hoover, entrepreneur James Dyson designed a bagless vacuum cleaner.
