sentences:  By age 16, Bissell was a school teacher.After Bissell married Melville R. Bissell at 19, they became a joint partner in their crockery and china business.The Bissell Sweeper website recounts that Mrs. Bissell complained to her husband about sawdust that collected in their carpets and was difficult to remove, whereupon he made great improvements to a new invention called the carpet sweeper.