Hoover Co. is recalling 636,000 vacuum cleaners after receiving about 250 reports of overheating that caused the handle area to smoke, melt or catch fire. The North Canton, Ohio-based subsidiary of ...

Hoover produced its first electric vacuum cleaner in 1908; in 1957, it produced its best-selling model, the Convertible, or Model 65, an upright that could be converted with a hose for above-the-floor ...