The Mysterious Life & The Vacuum Cleaner

Was it the tycoon who had created an industrial empire that had invented the domestic vacuum cleaner? Or was it the personal friend of Adolf Hitler and his lieutenant Hermann Goring, and of Benito Mussolini? And friends too with the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Mexican Manuel Avila Camacho, and the Dukes of Windsor of Great Britain. Or was it the innovator in the industrial field, patron of the development of carbon 14 in the 50's that involuted in the emerging business of the computer of IBM and owner of Telefonos of Mexico? Or the one who financed the archaeological discovery of the Pekin Man? Or was it the spy under protection of Mexico? As Axel Wenner-Gren were all those, the multi-faceted and multi-talented man, whom I mention briefly in my earlier Blog today, the man who invented the domestic vacuum cleaner, which converted him to be the first magnate in Sweden, and one of the richest men on the planet. He bought newspapers, banks, factories of arms, and the most important Celluloid company in Sweden, SCA. The idea of adapting the industrial vacuum cleaner to domestic use had made Axel Wenner-Gren not just one of the richest men in the world, but one of the most famous and revolutional. Shortly after the First World War he convinced the Sweden company Electrolux, for which he worked, to buy the copyright of the patent and pay him with shares. A few years later he became the owner of a leading company of the world in vacuum cleaners and refrigerators. The Times magazine published in their edition of 21st June of 1942 that Axel Wenner-Gren "was the most mysterious man in the occidental hemisphere." This enigma has begun to unfold with the publication in Mexico the book titled 'La Cruz del Sur' (The cross of the south). It reveals him as the spy Mexico protected, shared lovers with Hitler and Kennedy. Such a character in fiction would already be incredible and no one would believe all that had happened to one person. But all true in real life! However he spent his last 20 years in oblivion in Cuernavaca, near the Mexican capital. His wife, Marguerite Gauntier, an opera singer who had left her profession to follow her husband, had died in Mexico in utter misery. All that though, is another story. Tags:vacuumcleaner

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