Thursday, May 8, 2008

Home Education: Streamlining

Overheard on Saturday morning:

"Daddy, is that vacuum cleaner for snow?"

"No."

"Well, then why does it have a sled on it?"


"That's how people pulled it along behind them while they used it. The vacuum would glide over the carpet on the sled runners. It is very old, older than Grandaddy. Back when it was made people liked to make things look like rockets and trains. It's called streamlining and that is why I like it."

Electrolux Model XXX
Designed by Lurelle Guild
Produced from 1937 to 1955