Home cleaning specialist Bissell has a mid-way solution: the Natural Sweeper. One of the company’s OG floor cleaners (an invention of founder Melville Bissell back in 1887), it does one better ...

Bissell has been making floor cleaners for 147 years, starting with a floor sweeper. In 1957, the company introduced its first (manual) carpet shampooer, and in 1979, the first Bissell carpet deep ...

In 1956, Bissell introduced the manual carpet shampooer ... Hopkins sent out 5,000 letters offering the carpet sweepers as Christmas presents and received 1,000 orders - unprecedented at the ...