That device was the brainchild of H. Cecil Booth and was known as the (*) Puffing Billy.  
Ives W. McGaffey came up with an impractical hand-cranked one of these devices, but most of them were destroyed when the warehouse burned up in the Great Chicago Fire.  An early oil-powered one of these devices that was mounted on a horse-pulled cart delighted Europe's aristocracy when it was used at Edward VII's coronation.  That device was the brainchild of H. Cecil Booth and was known as the (*) Puffing Billy.  One of the biggest makers of these products was originally a Harness and Leather Goods company, but acquired patents from a 60 year old janitor named James Spangler and by the '50s was selling the popular Constellation model of these things.  One of these devices was the first consumer product released by the iRobot Corporation.  The Dual Cyclone was an innovative one of these devices invented in the 1980s by James Dyson.  For 10 points, name these devices, robotic examples of which include the Roomba.
Ives W. McGaffey came up with an impractical hand-cranked one of these devices, but most of them were destroyed when the warehouse burned up in the Great Chicago Fire.  
vacuum cleaner [or carpet sweeper or hoover] Â 