Hubert Cecil Booth
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Hubert Cecil Booth (4 July 1871 – 18 January 1955) was an English engineer who invented the first powered vacuum cleaner, designed Ferris wheels in Blackpool, Paris, and Vienna and who designed suspension bridges. He was born in Gloucester and died in Purley, Surrey.
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[edit] Education
Between 1884 and 1889 Booth was educated at Gloucester College and Gloucester County School under headmaster Reverend H. Lloyed Brereton. In 1889 he entered the Central Technical College, City and Guild, London after passing the entrance examination. He completed a three year course in civil engineering and mechanical engineering under Professor W.C. Unwin FRS. He completed the Diploma of Associateship (ACGI), coming second in the engineering department. He became a student of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
[edit] Personal life
Booth married one of the daughters of Francis Tring Pearce, director of the Priday, Metford and Company Limited. He was a friend of Hugh Pembroke Vowles.
[edit] Early career
In December 1892 he entered the drawing office of Messrs Maudslay Sons & Field, Lambeth, London under Mr Charles Sells. He worked on the design of two Royal Navy battleships.
