Pre–electric Vacuum Cleaner

You would pump the handle to create thye vacuum

[KoalaGardens🐨]

wow!

[Peter Dulis]

LOL - do you still use it :) ?

[Harry J Benson]

@pdulis It would only pick up little pieces, so we use it as a conversation piece.

[Dione Giorgio]

Wow, this is something I have never seen before. It is so complicated that I would have preferred using a bloom.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I think a carpet sweeper was probably easier to "run" but this certainly starts a better conversation! Interesting contraption!