Side note: Eureka's Disturbulator motto - used infrequently in advertisements - varied from "Beats! Sweeps! Suction Cleans!" to "Beats & Shakes! Sweeps & Combs! Suction Cleans!" Although other databases would have other ad's, I find it hard to believe that none of the newspapers in the one I can access would not have at least one 50th Anniversary ad featuring the model 260. It seems that back in that era Eureka advertised its canisters in newspapers and magazines more heavily than its uprights and polisher-scrubber-shampooers. 16 - Roto-Matic & Polisher-Scrubberīelow you'll see what ads I found when I entered "Eureka Super Automatic 260", "Eureka 260", "Eureka 260 upright", "Eureka Model 260", "Eureka 260 Vacuum". I agree that yesteryear's company products were often built with meaning and longevity as a result of manufacturing pride and a goal of customer satisfaction.ģ) 1959 June 19 - Vibra-Beat 1010 & Roto-Matic 805-BĤ) 1959 Sep. I noticed, too, as you've mentioned with Eureka's model names, that the "Mobile-Aire" moniker was used - I seem to recall Eureka's early ads referencing that same tagline. So apparently the 960-A and 260-A (and matching-colored polisher-scrubber) were not specific anniversary models - or at least not nationwide, and the company observed its 50th anniversary of production in 1960 rather than its 50th anniversary of origin in 1959. Today I scanned the database's 1959 & 1960 newspapers and found Eureka's Golden Anniversary mentioned only in 1960 ads - featuring the 910-B and the 1010 Vibra-Beat anniversary specials. after doing a search for "Eureka Golden Crown". It was found among the files of the Print and Picture Department of the Free Library of Brian You're welcome! I actually stumbled on that info. *This illustration - revised with bolder text - is from a magazine advertisement for NBC, probably dating from the 1940s. Wardell exclaimed when he designed his first vacuum cleaner and maybe others as well as the Eureka executives' responses to the ad agency's "Golden Crown" moniker and colors of the new Model 960 Super Roto-Matic! As this pointed out the way to explain the case in question, he jumped out of the tub and rushed home naked, crying with a loud voice that he had found what he was seeking for he as he ran he shouted repeatedly in Greek, 'Eureka, Eureka!' meaning 'I have found (it), I have found (it)!'" (photo 5, Oxford Languages) " happened to go to the bath, and on getting into a tub observed that the more his body sank into it the more water ran out over the tub (*photo 4). Suspecting that the goldsmith might have replaced some of the gold given to him by an equal weight of silver, Hiero asked Archimedes to determine whether the wreath was pure gold. Carroll, Professor of Physics at Weber State University at Utah, researched, "In the first century BC the Roman architect Vitruvius related a story of how Archimedes uncovered a fraud in the manufacture of a golden crown commissioned by Hiero II (photo 3 replica). So it could be that the colors of the Eureka Model 960 canister and 1959 Model 260 upright vacuum were chosen to resemble olive leaf green and golden crown gold along with white.ĭr. and occurred every four years, were awarded a wreath made of olive leaves." () Winners of the Olympic Games, which were first held in 776 B.C. "In ancient Greece, wreaths were introduced as a reward for victory in athletic competitions, military endeavors and musical and poetic contests. He is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity." () "Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily who lived from 287 B.C. Marzurs (photo 2), which brought Archimedes' Principle to mind. It could be that Eureka's advertising agency was abreast of two published works in 1957: a book by The Humanities Press (photo 1) and the Periodic Table of Elements in the Archimedean Spiral style by chemist Edward G.
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