LeTourneau University offered less grant aid to undergraduates than both the average private not-for-profit 4 year college in Texas and the average college in Texas. Similarly, fewer undergraduates took out federal student loans than the average private not-for-profit 4 year college in Texas, but more than the average college in Texas.
E.E. Hoag used these feathers to invent the first feather duster. Using a short broom stick and splitting the feathers with a pocket knife, the duster was found to be too stiff for use. In 1874, the Hoag Duster Company was founded, which became a pioneer of feather dusters in the U.S. state of Iowa.
1811 first floor-sweeping machine patented by James Hume in England. 1858 Lucius Bigelow in England and Hiram Herrick in Massachusetts invent improved version. 1876 Melville Bissell receives patent for his carpet sweeper invention. 1883 The first BISSELL manufacturing plant is built in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1889 Anna Bissell becomes America's first female corporate CEO, after Melville's untimely death.