The design, functionality and cost of The Boss vacuum cleaner.

The Eureka Company has designed a corded handheld vacuum called The Boss. The Boss operates on a 120V power source and runs at 60Hz on a 2A current. The vacuum itself is a little over a foot long and can fit in a 4 inch by 4 inch area so this device is quite compact. The vacuum is simple and is made mostly of plastic with the other materials being steel and copper for the motor to operate the impeller to provide the suction for the vacuum to operate. The time this device came from and the functions of this device seems to suggest that the world needed a small compact vacuum that most likely had a low cost as well. Also the name is big on the top in clear view of the user suggests that maybe this product was well know. This may have adverse effects on the cost of a product, likely causing a higher sales price than need be. The customer most likely wanted a space efficient vacuum since The Boss is small and compact and was only meant to be used in a home as the cord was not very long. The customer who bought this most likely had money on the side to afford this device. Although this vacuum is small, compact, and saved space, it most likely was not the primary vacuum of a household. This would mean that the most probable owner of this device was more or less middle class and had the money to buy an extra vacuum. This vacuum has a power input of 120V with a current of 2A so the total wattage of the vacuum would be 240W and taking into account the cost of the electricity of the time to be around 14cents an hour it would cost about 4cents (actually 3.36 cents but rounded for simplicity) to run continuously for an hour, but if this vacuum ran for an hour it would quickly fill up the debris compartment and you would stop running the vacuum to empty out. the vacuum is made just to clean small debris, it doesn't have any suction settings or any variance os speed of the motor. It has one attachment which extends the mouth of the vacuum and changes the suction area to a smaller entry which effectively causes the suction to become a little more powerful. From records of the time, the average hand held dual purpose vacuum would cost about $40 and i think that this sum is a small amount if this is used only on small jobs and does not run for an hour or which realistically it wouldn't be able to without modifying the vacuum to have a larger debris chamber. Society as a whole would readily buy one of these vacuums and that means that most people are ready to pay for a small luxury as a handheld vacuum. This design with the use of an impeller can be seen in a jet engine or an automobile's torque converter where an impeller is present as well.