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Cleaning up household spills and messes in hard to reach places got a novel new twist with the introduction of the cordless hand vacuum known as the Dustbuster. Black & Decker developed the rechargeable lightweight cleaning machine with technology from the Apollo moon landings. The device so convincingly penetrated American culture that it was entered into the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.