Download or read book Suck, Don't Blow written by Jane Furnival and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 1906, the Puffing Billy was an elaborate machine and the equivalent would cost #2000 to buy in the 1990s. This text follows the chain of false starts and ingenious ideas which have evolved around the modern-day vacuum cleaner.