Hoover left Bewick Moreing & Co in 1908 and, setting out on his own, eventually ended up with investments on every continent and offices in San Francisco, London, New York City, St. Petersburg, Paris and Mandalay, Burma.

Unable to produce the design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to William Henry Hoover who had Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel casing, casters, and attachments.

Spangler patented his rotating-brush design June 2, 1908, and eventually sold the idea to his cousin's husband, Hoover.

* 1908: The Hoover Company begins manufacturing vacuum cleaners.

Seeing in the Suction Sweeper a marketing opportunity, Hoover bought the patent from Spangler in 1908 and retained Spangler as company Superintendent, on royalties in the new business.

As you proceed, you learn about the beginning of the Hoover company and view displays of very early Hoover cleaners from the Hoover 1907 / 1908 Model O to present.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.

The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.

He joined the Independent Labour Party in 1908, and became active in London local politics.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

The Detroit River became the busiest commercial river in the world and was dubbed " the Greatest Commercial Artery on Earth " by The Detroit News in 1908.

Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.

He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor on 1908, and full professor in 1911.

* John Brown ( baseball ) ( 1876 – 1908 ), player for 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, which later became Los Angeles Dodgers

Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.

In 1912, the old fortress was dismantled, and in 1908, the municipality Rothensee became part of Magdeburg,

In Japan the first successful planting of olive trees happened in 1908 on Shodo Island which became the cradle of olive cultivation.

) With the sale of so many records, sheet music, and piano rolls, the song became one of the most popular hits of 1908.

In 1908, when the second-hand business was merged into the regular sales offices, Watson became assistant sales manager ; moving up to become sales manager in 1910 with a further role — working along with NCR's engineers — in new product development.

In 1908 Bang and Ellerman showed that a filterable virus could transmit chicken leukemia, data largely ignored till the 1930s when leukemia became regarded as cancerous.

In 1907 he became associate professor and in 1908 full professor of mathematics at the University of Chernivtsi ( Russian Черновцы ), Ukraine.

In 1908, Jung became an editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research.

London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice ; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924.

Usable gyrocompass was invented in 1906 in Germany by Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, and after successful tests in 1908 became widely used in German Imperial Navy.

In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture ( L ' assasinat du duc de Guise ), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s.

In June 1908, Edward became the first reigning British monarch to visit the Russian Empire, despite refusing to visit in 1906, when Anglo-Russian relations were strained in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Tsar's dissolution of the Duma.

At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the de jure Ottoman province of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 ( see Bosnian Crisis ), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers ( AIChE ), established in 1908, played a key role in making chemical engineering considered an independent science, and unit operations central to chemical engineering.

On 5 October 1908 ( celebrated on 22 September ), Ferdinand proclaimed Bulgaria's de jure independence from the Ottoman Empire ( though the country had been basically independent since 1878 ).

Cape May Point re-emerged as an independent municipality on April 6, 1908, based on the results of a referendum held on April 21, 1908.

Portions of the township were taken to form Washington town within the township ( February 23, 1870 ; became independent as South River on February 28, 1898 ), Helmetta ( March 20, 1888 ), Milltown ( January 29, 1889 ) and Spotswood ( April 15, 1908 ).

* Tunisia, known as the Régence ( since 3 June 1955 autonomous ), where France had a Resident-general ( posted with the Basha bey of Tunis, who once the French protectorate was terminated on 20 March 1956 restyled his realm al-Mamlaka at-Tunisiyya ' Tunisian Kingdom '), in stead got a High commissioner from 13 September 1955 to 20 March 1956: Roger Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne ( b. 1908 – d. 1985 ); in continued shortly as independent monarchy, but on 25 July 1957 became the Tunisian Republic.

The three newly independent states subsequently proclaimed themselves kingdoms: Romania in 1881, Serbia in 1882 and Montenegro in 1910, while Bulgaria proclaimed full independence in 1908 after uniting with Eastern Rumelia in 1885.

The province was nominally under Ottoman suzerainty until Bulgaria became de jure independent in 1908.

At the height of his power, Simeon adopted the title of tsar (" emperor "), as did the Bulgarian rulers after the country became officially independent in 1908.

* Thomas Burke ( Clare politician ) ( 1908 – 1951 ), Irish independent legislator

Its inspiration certainly belonged to the nineteenth-century Balkan practice whereby the powers maintained the fiction of Ottoman control over effectively independent states under the guise of autonomous status within the Ottoman state ; ( Serbia, 1829 – 1878 ; Romania, 1829 – 1878 ; Bulgaria, 1878 – 1908 ).

It replaced an earlier church of the Holy Family which was at first a chapel-of-ease to St Augustine's, then an independent parish, but a chapel-of-ease again from 1908 to 1940 when it became the parish church of St Augustine's parish.

Antoine Meillet ( 1905, 1908, 1922, 1925, 1934 ), the distinguished French Indo-Europeanist, in reaction to a second simplified theory of Schleicher's, propounded a view according to which all similarities of Baltic and Slavic occurred accidentally, by independent parallel development, and that there was no Proto-Balto-Slavic language.

In 1908, investors in the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, concerned that it was overvalued, ordered an independent study.

On May 1, 1908 Nordenham was granted 2nd class town rights and since 1955 Nordenham is an independent town in the Wesermarsch district.

First elected as an independent Protectionist, he became a member of Deakin's Commonwealth Liberal Party in 1908.

He was an architect for the Canadian Department of Public Works from 1908 to 1911, after which he had an independent practice in Ottawa until 1916.

The newspaper began as an independent in 1908 as the Eburne News.

Alexander Paterson ( 24 January 1844-23 March 1908 ) was an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland.

This business model, however, came to a halt in 1908 when the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ; commonly known as the Edison Trust ) launched a wave of lawsuits against independent film studios on patent infringement grounds.

From 1908 until production ceased in 1914 they became independent again as the Waverley Company.

By virtue of Executive Order No. 114 in 1908, Basud was restored to its original status as an independent municipality.

History recalls that in 1902, a civil form of government was established with Antonio Quiñones as president, while Exequiel Era was the first elected president in 1908 when Basud was separated from Daet to form an independent municipality.