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KIRBY, JAMES, lawyer and legal journalist; b.

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Jim Kirby

For the American labor leader, see James Kirby. For the baseball player, see Jim Kirby (baseball). For the Australian rules footballer, see Jim Kirby (footballer).

James Blaine "Jim" Kirby (September 28, 1884 – June 7, 1971) was an American inventor and self-taught electrical engineer who focused his career on "eliminating the drudgery of housework". He is known mostly for inventing the Kirbyvacuum cleaner and the wringerless washing machine.

In 1935, the famous news reporter and radio personality Lowell Thomas wrote a book entitled "The Man Who Revolutionized the American Household" about Jim Kirby and his drive to harness electricity to ease household chores. Much of Lowell's work was devoted to describing Kirby's whimsical, innovative home at 4374 Broadview Road in Richfield, Ohio.^[1] Kirby had purchased the land in 1919 at the age of 35 after making his fortune with the invention of the washing machine spin cycle. He devised and patented a system of filtration dams that would keep silt out of the new lake he created. He situated his house on a hills

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James B. Kirby Biography – Kirby's Inventions

James B. Kirby (of Jim Kirby) (1884 - 1971) was an inventor of Scottish ancestry who lived in America and is mostly famous for inventing the Kirby vacuum cleaners although over 200 inventions are attributed to him.

Kirby was born on September 28, 1884, and it is known that his father was Great Lakes, marine engineer. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and while attending Lincoln High School James worked as a lamplighter. His job was to light and snuff gas streetlights. He learned about electricity by attending electricity classes at the Y.M.C.A. One of his first inventions was a massage the machine which was built for a man called Knocks who ordered it. The massaging machine was sold between 1903 and 1904 to P. A. Geier, who manufactured and sold it under the name “Royal”. His next invention was one of the first answering machines ordered by a certain doctor from Cleveland. Its central part was based on the Edison’s phonograph which was controlled electrically and informed the caller that doctor is not in and if they leave a message i

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James Kirby

For the American law professor, see James C. Kirby. For the American inventor, see Jim Kirby. For the British experimental musician, see James Leyland Kirby.

James Kirby (c. 1865 – October 8, 1915) was an American labor leader and president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1913 to 1915.^[1]

Born and raised near Kankakee, Illinois, he went to Chicago shortly after learning his trade as a carpenter, settling in South Chicago where he was a millwright and member of Local 199. He was elected a delegate to the Chicago District Council of the Carpenters' union, and president of the district council several times. In 1905 he was elected president of the Structural Building Trades Alliance. He served until 1908, when the Alliance affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and changed its name to the Building Trades Department (BTD). He was elected president of the BTD and served until 1910.

In 1910, Carpenters president William Huber appointed him "general organizer" for the international union. In 1912, he ran