Anna Bissell's New Carpet Sweeper

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Born 1846 in River John Nova Scotia, Canada Anna Bissell had completed all of the schooling available to her and, by the age of 16 she was a school teacher. In 1865, she married Melville R. Bissell and together they moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. There, her and her husband were joint partners in a crockery and china business. They decided to move again in to the Grand Rapids 1871, in search of more business opportunities. After hearing Anna’s complaints about how difficult it was for her to clean the saw dust stuck in their carpets her husband, Melville Bissell made various improvements to their new carpet sweeper and managed to invent his own version of it in 1876. Anna began travelling to various towns and selling their new product for

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