How Did These Inventions Turn Ordinary Homes Into Death Traps? | Hidden Killers | Progress
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2024
- Uncover the hidden killers lurking in different eras of British homes in this gripping compilation. Historian Suzannah Lipscomb explores the dangers that accompanied progress in the Tudor, Victorian, Edwardian, and post-war periods. From hazardous inventions to toxic materials, join Suzannah as she delves into the perils of everyday life throughout history. Discover the shocking truths behind the Edwardian home, the modern designs of the postwar era, the deadly secrets of the Tudor household, and the perilous threats faced by Victorian society. Brace yourself for a captivating journey through time and the hidden dangers of British homes.
00:00 Victorian Home
58:20 Edwardian Home
01:56:42 Tudor Home
02:55:14 Post-War Home
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We can all sit in our modern homes, with all our modern conveniences and feel comfortably smug, shaking our heads in disgust about all "... the terrible injuries that were inflicted in the name of progress." in Victorian times, but I guarantee that future generations will watch the same sort of documentaries about the countless wildly dangerous and irresponsible things that we consider perfectly acceptable today. I have no doubt that the insane numbers of deaths and horrific injuries resulting from our transportation systems alone will, 100+ years in the future, provide more than enough shock value for a documentary similar to this one.
Historian 100 years in the future: "Technology in cars was such a hindrance to the people of the 2020s. Texting on phones, holding phones while driving, and even tablets were contributors to some of the deadliest automobile crashes of the 2020s."😊
One day, when self driving cars are the only ones available, they will be making documentaries about us...."The roads were a death trap. In the hands of almost every American, as young as 16, was a two ton killing machine. The only qualifications were a quick written test and couple of laps around the building...there was a death EVERY 11 minutes."
Wait until we find out the air we breathe is slowly killing us, filling our homes with plastics that offgas for years, paint, washing or clothes, surfaces,dishes etc is harmful...
I don’t think gun loving truck owners will ever allow that to happen. I think parts of the country will stay “Wild West” while the urban centers require self driving. And there will be insurance benefits for choosing to go autopilot.
@Jtstien That's probably true for much of North America, but I suspect the adoption will go much more smoothly in the rest of the Western world. Obviously, that isn't going to happen until the technology can be perfected.
When I was 10 yo my mother gave me a “Gilbert Erector Set.” The set came in a large red steel case to carry and store the contents. The set weighed about 10+ pounds and contained steel girders, small screws, nuts, bolts, many different sized gears and chains and a electric motor which ran on 110-120 volts AC. The girders were plated and had sharp edges. The assembly tools had extra parts along with an assembly guide to make many mechanical projects. You could buy upgrades and replacement parts for bigger and better projects. It was the Lego’s of the early 1950’s. I must of spent hundreds of hours making the projects and inventing new ones. The most dangerous part was the electric motor which had no strain relief to prevent the cord from separating from the motor. The many small parts were a hazard to toddlers and small children. Dangerous or not it was an incredible toy to experiment with. eBay had one for sale brand new still in the wrapper for $800.00. It sold in hour of being posted. Your presentation is extremely well done, informative amd educational. One question, when was the series first produced?
Yeah, stuff like that was really cool! I had a few erector sets when growing up. I think the problem today is, we live in an "instant gratification" society... Problem with stuff like erector sets, is that it takes a long time to put something together (every joint needs a screw and nut... and sometimes washers, etc) and it seems kids just don't want to be bothered. I can hardly get my kids to build stuff out of lego, and that's much less tedious! :(
I absolutely learned a TON playing with all of that old stuff and made all kinds of "mechanical contraptions"... I still have a lot of legos with motors, lights, gears, axles, pulleys, chains, etc, etc, etc... Also, those radio shack electronic experiment kits (with the big breadboards and electronic components... I WISH my kids would get into them at least a bit... I keep trying to tell them, they'll be able to save a TON of money being able fix diagnose and fix their own stuff at home. Even just a little mechanical and electrical "know-how" can go a pretty long way!
Surprised they don't just give kids guns and fireworks ...oh yes they do
@@jasonlroberts Guns? Only in America.
@@jasonlroberts I grew up playing with fireworks and being taught how to shoot a .22 rifle at targets from about age 10. The big difference is we _never_ did these things without adult supervision, and there was a lengthy safety lesson every time the guns or fireworks were involved. The first time a kid did something reckless, like try to hold a roman candle after it was lit, the whole thing was shut down and put away, and none of us kids had any fun. Especially the cousin who had to ruin it by acting like a fool, because we never let him forget it!
The rest of the time, I don't know where my dad stored those rifles because I never saw them at home.
There was a special area set up on my grandparent's 800 acre farm that was the shooting area. It was far from any houses and no one ever got hurt.
Now that I own 20 acres of off-grid wilderness on a mountain, where I raise goats, and large apex predators are frequent visitors, I'm glad I learned how to shoot when I was young. I still don't like guns in general, but for some of us they are necessary tools.
I had some wild and crazy cousins in rural West Texas who had a different upbringing. They got bb guns at a young age and little to no supervision. One brother shot out the eye of his older brother with a bb, so it really does happen!
I can attest to the danger of non-uniform stairs. Our house was built in the 70s and one staircase has three steps that are slightly different heights than the others. You wouldn't know it from looking at them but so many people were falling or almost falling that I eventually decided to measure them. It's shocking what a huge difference a couple of centimeters can make.
a human foot can detect as little as a 0.7 mm height difference
@patrickderp1044 it sure would be great if it could pass that information along to my brain in time to stop me from falling up the stairs.
Yes! I have a Victorian house with servant stairs. Those stairs go from my bedroom to the kitchen. I’d rather walk past them and down the hall to the main staircase then back around to the kitchen, then use the stairs most days. One person has fallen on them but they require such thought and careful walking to not fall that most days I don’t feel like risking it.
The fact that nearly all stairs are uniform now means nobody is expecting it today which is going to magnify the issue to some extent
i remember when i was really young one of my schools had uneven stairs in one section and proper stairs on the new addition
so my classmates and i had developed a way of lifting our feet and stepping up like pedaling a bike lol
going down uneven steps is a totaly different story though... we would simply leap from the step to the ground.
I wrote a paper in college about women being blinded and poisoned by cosmetics. This documentary would be good for people who think we need less government and regulations to watch.
In my experience, the people "who think we need less government and regulations" would refuse to watch this video because it is "liberal nonsense". It's sad :(
@@TonyPombo It's so frustrating trying to reason with these stubborn fools! Some years back, I tried telling people not to buy cheap pet food made in China because it could kill their pets. They didn't believe me because the food was "approved" by AAFCO (it isn't). AAFCO establishes the nutritional standards for complete and balanced pet foods but has no regulatory power. AAFCO does not regulate, test, approve or certify pet foods in any way.
There was an epidemic of pets dying from being poisoned by cheap Chinese pet food. The manufacturers discovered that if they added melamine, a type of plastic, into the food, it would fool the testing and show up as high protein instead of the toxic crap it really was.
In 2007, at least 3600 pets died from acute kidney disease caused by melamine poisoning. Some of the poisoned food was NOT cheap, Hills was one of the worst and their food is not only expensive, it's often sold at vet offices as "prescription" food.😿
0:15: 🏠 The Victorian home was a sanctuary from the outside world, but advancements in science brought dangerous products and services into the home.
18:21: 💀 Stairs in Victorian times were dangerous due to high population density, narrow house styles, and steep and narrow staircases.
37:01: 👶 The dangers of using a mangle on wash day could cause horrific and sometimes fatal injuries, especially to children's hands and arms.
54:16: 🔥 Celluloid, a highly flammable material, replaced ivory and bone in clothing items and accessories, leading to dangerous incidents and accidents.
1:13:07: ⚡ Electricity can be dangerous, especially when the human factor is involved.
1:31:40: 💡 The early commercial fridges in the early 20th century were expensive and only affordable to the rich until much later when they became more accessible to the masses.
1:49:57: 💀 Radium is absorbed into the bones and damages the bone marrow, leading to aplastic anemia.
2:07:40: 😄 Sugar affects the brain's chemicals, making us feel happy and content. Bad teeth can be deadly due to tooth decay and abscesses. Tea can also be harmful to teeth due to its acidity.
2:26:18: ❄ The sudden intake of air when our body hits cold water is involuntary and can cause suffocation due to the larynx going into spasm.
2:43:52: 🦠 The Tudors linked the horrific symptoms of a disease to sex, which we now know as syphilis caused by a bacterial infection.
3:01:43: 🔥 The dangers of chemistry sets and the importance of safety measures.
3:20:37: 🏠 A professional DIY expert caused big problems by making radical changes to houses, changing their appearance.
3:37:35: 🌫 The thick, yellowy brown smog in London in 1952 caused thousands of deaths and illnesses.
Recap by Tammy AI
In my former simplicity, I harbored the belief that I would derive great pleasure from returning to a more tranquil era, unburdened by the omnipresence of technology and the frenetic pace of modern existence. Yet, upon perusing a certain video, my dear, I must exclaim with astonishment that such a regression is utterly unthinkable. While I previously held reservations about the perils of navigating bustling freeways, the homes of Victorian England, I must confess, proved to be veritable deathtraps! I entertain serious doubts about my own ability to endure even half a year in such an environment, dare I say, with a lighthearted chuckle. Thus, I shall contentedly remain in this contemporary epoch, expressing heartfelt gratitude for the technological marvels bestowed upon us
"The past was the worst" Simon Whistler
The past is best remembered and not relived.
Fun comment to read. Thanks for this.
Your excellent speech is heartily appreciated, my good lady. 🤭
RARELY do I ever watch a 4-hour long video... But this was SO captivating, and held my interest thru 4-5 sittings... I'd pause it, do something else, then watch more X 5... GREAT video...
I love this video for so many reasons. It's so informative and has so many interesting segments. Very well put together and narrated. I love Dr Lipscomb's voice in this. She has a voice like silk, and it draws you in and makes you sit up and take notice.
That lady had such a disbelief about people being afraid of each other cause of germs,this had to be made before 2020
Social distancing please 😷
The years 1918-19 would like to have a word.
My family immigrated from Germany @ 1870. They and other German families established a community in S. Texas. My great-grandparents' farm is still owned by our family and the family church is just up the road. My ancestors and those others of the community are buried in the church yard.
Back @ 1982, I was walking through the graveyard with a relative who was born around 1900 who remembered many of those boneyard residents. We came upon a section with small headstones and I noticed there were a lot, most babies under age 4, and all died in 1918 or 1919. I asked my relative, "What the heck happened here?!"
I never learned about the "Spanish" flu until that day.
She described the horror, how families would wake up to a sick baby, and by the end of the day sometimes the entire family was dead from the flu. She later showed me some old family photos I'd never seen before after I asked why our family wasn't wiped out.
"It vas because dey ver schmart!" She explained the quarantine and showed me a photo of herself with my great-grandparents and their offspring (all 12). They were all wearing masks! Great big masks that covered everything but their eyeballs!
Hmmm, it's almost like masking and social distancing actually works after all.
Just began watching this. Short of it beginning with ad breaks, this is going to be an interesting three and a half hours indeed! Thank you ~~~
Yikes! From the Victorians: “I should stand well clear when you light the blue touchpaper.” Indeed.
As lethal as the post-war period seems to have been, it's a miracle how I survived my childhood. 😎
They are exxagerating alot of this. "Most bread" was not tainted like this. Even in mainland china most food isnt tainted. Alot is, but definitely not "most" in either case.
Not sure why we can't just be honest here...its like smoking, they told us in school that literally everyone who uses tobacco will die from it when its really around 1 in 150.
Excellent program and many even better comments!
I live in a very old apartment building with a wooden semi-spiral, low head room, highly uneven and “unpredictable” steps, into the basement laundry area.
I had the wonderful Erector Set and the smelly home “plastic molding” kit. Fifty-five(?) years later I still have one molded “shrunken head” which is flexible and intact. WHAT WAS IT MADE OF?? HOW MUCH TOXIC VAPOR DID MY NEIGHBOR KID FRIEND AND I INHALE??!! (Sorry, I just recall even then wondering if this was “safe.” It was quite fun though!)
Yes, great stories from the program and viewers!!
i think hes scottish but that guy who talks here and there is so awesome..idk what it is about him but i like him hahha his voice is so calm and relaxing
He’s welsh
This video is scary...well researched
Sad how things haven't changed in some things. Most flour today has Aluminum. Sad...Some people drink small amounts of Borax for detox. It's still in a lot of teeth whitening even at some office cleaning.
I would like to see this continue up to modern day homes.
today you have things like "gum arabic" used in e.g. yogurts or puddings - these products contain little milk or cream, being diluted, then cheaply thickened with these starches - it's not cheating since the consumer knows, but often don't care...
"100%" juices from concentrates are another story
the list goes on an on
@LiborTinka ya and not just our food but we had things like Teflon and BPA, lead paint etc more recently what's still lurking in our homes?
Red 40 comes to mind in USA hey it's got to be red right?
This may be a particularly useful program for those who yearn for the alleged halcyon days of any period in the past. This is not to say that some aspects may have been better, of course, but in the details and tools and instruments of daily living, the hazards were abundant. There are certainly many even now, but over the years we ought to have learned some safety basics. One such example is not mixing chlorine bleach with ammonia (which produces chloramine gas (deadly)). I will say, though, that even in the mid 1970s, my friends and I still were given chemistry sets as gifts, and would go to local hobby shops to purchase chemicals and laboratory equipment. The toxicity, flammability, reactivity, corrosiveness or potential explosiveness of some these is amazing, in view of their availability to us at the time, without much fuss at all. One actually contained uranium in small amounts, which, I believe was mentioned in this video. Oh well, at least they didn't contain fluoroantimonic acid, azidoazide azide or chlorine trifluoride, or most of us would have "an-heroed" ourselves. We were nuts back then. 😅🤣😂
Yes, and we're nuts even still. We're constantly warned about the dangers of things like white rice, white pasta, sugar and high fructose corn syrup and yet we continue to consume them by the barrels full. Not only that, we teach our innocent young offspring to do the same. Remember the decades not long ago when so called health magazines told us all to carb up the night before our morning jog?
I’m almost eighty now. My father gave me his chemistry set. Fortunately came out OK through my youth.
So these ppl believed these products and procedures were safe and effective until they found out they weren't? Interesting. See you in 75 years
For the life of me I cannot imagine how a child has its head run through a mangle -- fingers: yes, arms: no. It isn't like the mangle is driven by some sort of automatic motor that doesn't turn off when someone screams in pain. The mangle is activated by a person standing within a foot of the darn thing -- or is there more to the story that "Progress" doesn't tell us. By what I see it is one of the mysteries of the 19th Century.
Would make an interesting documentary
I'd throw out a guess that some mother with the IQ of a turnip decided to dry her child's hair using the mangle, and ended up causing the tragedy.
Hair, winter hats, hoods attached to coats, short sleeved top, lots and lots of ways that kids were ‘mangled’.
If a child's hair or shirt became entangled, their head would quickly follow. It was also entirely possible for a child to trip and fall headfirst into the machinery as safty railings or any sort of barriers were rarely, if ever used. If there was a hopper, the head would be rapidly fed into the mangle.
Most likely, an older child did this to younger children. 😐
At the end of the video did they have to let the smoke alarm keep going off????
My neighbors thought I hAd a fire here! iT'S A GOOOD VIDEO AND THEN .... THAT!
I had fallen asleep and woke up to that. Almost ran out the house half naked lol.
When I was a kid, chicken were sold with their feet still attached and I loved to play with a cut off chicken foot. When you pulled at the tendon, the claws moved and closed.
I love watching you Sarah you always bring a smile to me,sending healing energy and to Mick, best wishes🎉
How amazing that we survived at all! Extraordinarily interesting! Thank you.
1:14:58 theragun
History repeating itself has entered the chat.
2:32:15 "Death from crushed testicles after playing games at Christmas" ... man that suxx!
With all of the toxins that baby "formula" had in it, maybe that's why all of the babies in the photos in those times always looked miserable and never smiled. The biggest reason for the high amount of infant deaths were due to the side effects and diseases that were toxins in all of the many "milk formulas."
When I was a baby, they didn't have formula yet. I was fed Carnation condensed milk with water and molasses added. I was constantly sick as a baby, and I grew up stupid. Since I'm the only complete moron in my family, I blame it on poor nutrition as a baby.
Picture taking at the time was still seen as a serious thing, a luxury even. It was not long after the days where one HAD to stay still due to the fact that a 'camera's" aperture had to stay open a long time, making a relaxed (re: normal resting face) a thing.
Nobody was trying to make the children smile. So they didn't.
So interesting to see how these things affected "the servants" and other non-rich people disproportionately. But this is what less regulation results in, isn't it?
It’s actually the opposite. The wealthy could afford luxury. It was all about appearances and it was the better appearing items that killed everyone.
Only the wealthy could afford to make walls pretty. The most expensive wallpaper and other home decor was full of arsemic. Same thing with the uranium glass. They were obsessed with green.
Only the wealthy could afford to buy baby bottles, painted toys for their children, gas lighting in homes, gas hot water tubs, make up, bone corsets etc.
They were largely killed by their vanity. The poor had their own set of problems too but it was not disproportionately.
@timward3116 actually, in the Victorian times, the sign of wealth was how many extravagant material things you had in your home. No regulations would be more accurate! The servants were exposed as much as the families they worked for. The poisonous wallpaper is the most shocking. It seemed like every new advancement
and inventions, and total lack of knowledge of how to manage and use huge advancements like how to utilize gas, electricity, (overloading power circuits, electrocutions) water pipes, and gas furnaces in bathrooms. Explosions were common during the Victorian era. Wealthy Victorians lived in virtual death traps.
@@MamaofaWrestler The wallpaper is a good example, of course. One could argue, though, that the servants might have been disproportionately affected by those items that they used in the service of the wealthy and by the stairs used to access their living quarters and work areas. In subsequent times, as the middle-class rose and had access to those items previously enjoyed only by the rich, they became, in effect, their own servants and masters and ended up suffering from both ends. History is full of examples where the wealthy created dangerous conditions for their largely expendable and replaceable servant class. Today being part of the Labor Day weekend in the US, I am reminded of the conditions under which labor worked back in Victorian times and how, after much death and violence, laws were passed that somewhat protected the worker class.
The people who owned mines, railroads, and factories never did the dangerous work and, in fact, ensured that some who fought for better, safer conditions were murdered.
Of course, the ethics of the sociopaths of the rulling class haven't changed at all since then, and conditions of workers and ordinary consumers are eroding.
What's crazy is often the government HAD to step in and force the company to stop making the product, like asbestos. I listened to a podcast about polyester clothing that easily caught on fire in the 1950s. The government put out warnings to stay away from the fire when in the clothing but I don't think it was ever discontinued.
@@simonfea2 I'm not surprised.
Asbestos removal was a profitable business in Germany. The law does not permit its existence and so all public buildings were examined by asbestos searchers and finders and where a tiny bit of asbestos was found all connected pieces had to be taken away also and that let to build all walls again in a system where the restoration had to take care of the parts being free of asbestos.
It still is. When my daughter was renovating her1880's Victorian house a few years ago, the contractor who did it had big business in asbestos removal. Of course they found it in her house too, but he said to leave it -- as long as it's not disturbed there's no problem. And we live in Canada. Yikes.
They found some knob and tube wiring too -- they had to replace that. Cost them a small fortune.
One of the strange mechanism in the UK, more than 300 years old ?, is the door opener. We in Germany were lucky to have the French as close neighbor enjoying Champagne and fashion and parfum and the optimal door opener. I prepare for my wife from India morning tea and coming from the kitchen both hands carrying a cup with tea have no problem to open the door with one of my elbows. How to do this in the UK ? I have to take a tablet, stand before the door on one leg and put the knee from the other up so that I can place the tablet on this uplifted knee and have one hand free to turn the door opener. I could continue with another such stories but my little daughter tells me to say something positive. Here it comes:
Nowhere in the world you can find such wonderful sterling silver cutlery and tea pots as in the UK. My father was lucky having inherited from his English grand aunt, not having found a suitable partner, a cutlery set kings pattern, stamped GA, all items 24 times and produced by the excellent crafts artist George Adams. Now, such rare very precious cutlery is best presented in London, in the Silver Vaults.
Thank you for sharing this, I truly enjoyed reading your comment. And what a nice set of silver to have inherited, indeed, how lovely and how fortunate. Regards, M ~~~~~
My niece has lived in Germany for the last 25 years and she loves it there. She's fluent in English, French, and German and speaks enough Italian and Spanish to enjoy visiting historic places and art museums all across Europe. When she lived in the states, she worked as a manager at Wendy's for low pay even though she was multilingual, very smart and has a college degree.
In Germany, she's a highly paid executive working for a major international company where her language skills are rewarded. Her side gig is being lead singer in a rock band that plays professionally at festivals, which it seems Germans have a lot of!
The US had lots of beautiful fine silver in the 18th and 19th Century, but when poverty affected most Americans in the early 20th century (and today), those family heirlooms got melted down and sold for scrap so the families could buy food.😢 Can you imagine all the treasures that have been lost due to theft, ignorance, and poverty?
Paul Revere is historically remembered for his Midnight Ride, which most likely didn't happen the way we were taught. What he SHOULD be remembered for is his fine silversmithing skills and the beautiful works of art he created.
I love an artistic style of silversmithing that is unique to the Southwest US, made by American natives; the jewelry and other handcrafted objet d'art that are made from turquoise, copper, and silver. I've collected that since I was a kid and love that it's jewelry with a "soul" and a creator instead of mass-produced junk.
Several years ago, I was given a large polished piece of turquoise as a gift and it's one of my favorite things because of who gave it to me. I rarely talk about it because it sounds too outrageous to be believable, and if it hadn't happened to me, I wouldn't believe it either!
I live off-grid on a mountain in S. Calif, a place so remote it takes me an hour to drive to my mailbox and back, and I have no neighbors. If it wasn't for my animals and the wild animals I love, it would be unbearably lonely out here.
Eight years ago, I rescued a baby raven that was being attacked by other ravens intent on killing the poor little guy. I scooped him up and brought him home, where I noticed his beak was slightly misaligned but perfectly functional. Nature hates anomalies, so that's probably why his own family tried to kill him.
When he was able to fly I let him go, but he chose to stay since I put food out for him and other birds. His beak straightened out so well it's normal now, so he left for awhile and came back with a mate! Igor is a magnificent bird and his lovely mate, Elsa, agrees.
Now they've been here for 8 years and have raised several families, these birds have been very friendly towards me. They even leave me gifts by my doorstep, Mostly small tools, machine parts, a set of keys left by my car door, pieces from a chess set (I don't play chess)... but my favorite is that chunk of turquoise! They had to have swiped it from someone as it's not commonly found in this area.
I've learned that ravens giving gifts to people they like isn't really that unusual, many documented cases around the world. You want to be on their good side though, because they never forget a human who was cruel to them and will find clever ways to torment people they hate.
I want to make a pendant out of that "magical" turquoise and wear it as a talisman. I've read enough Carlos Castaneda books to know that when a mystical raven gives one such a gift, that's a pretty special object and should be cherished. My property is right next to the Cahuilla tribe's reservation so it was native land long before the California gold rush enticed foreigners to steal their land and murder most of the original first peoples. Ravens are sacred messengers and powerful symbols to the Cahuillas and other tribes and I can see why.
I don't really believe in magic, but then I never used to believe that birds could be so highly intelligent, so I'll keep an open mind.
121:40 Only in December 2018 did 🇨🇦Canadian government enact bans on sale/use of asbestos - and on exporting it "with a limited number of exceptions." That last clause still concerns me.
I love learning history. Awesome program. By the way what a beautiful woman.
Shirley you can't be serious . . . !
20:00 Stationed in South Korea, many businesses in town would have steep & uneven stairs!
Especially bars would be on the second floor...
Great get drunk, and then navigate those stairs!
No I'll pee out the window
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Just to be clear, ALL plastics are flammable.
Yea but can we choke the rivers and aquatic wild life with it that's the idea
I watched just short of 4 hours of things that have gone wrong in the last, say 500 years, and cause a person's demise i.e. Darwin at work. I find it interesting but with about 7 billion people alive I don't see it as a threat to humanity. Still, I feel this video deserves a greater viewership.
It's eight billion now
Inference is bliss
It's all very interesting, but frankly, people of the future will look back at our lifestyle and say the same thing about us I'd imagine. Lol. Even with all of our food laws, a lot of things fall through the cracks and we just don't know it's dangerous. Or think of what they will say when self driving cars are the only vehicles available. They will look back at us....almost every American, as young as 16, driving around in our two ton killing machine. The only qualifications being a quick written test and a couple of laps around the building....Or they will find out something else we don't know yet and look back thinking we were stupid. Lol
@@lindsey4178 I'm only 62, but I played with toys that are now illegal to even own, such as lawn darts (OMG! What a stupid idea! But fun). Clackers were another awful toy. They were two hard plastic resin balls suspended on strings that you would get "clacking together with enough force that they would travel a full arc and smash together at the top of the arc as well as the bottom. The balls would eventually shatter into very sharp needle-like shards that became embedded in skin and eyes. They were also used as bolo-style weapons by other kids. I lost a tooth that way.
My favorite toy was the Vacuform and toymaker that was a small high-temp furnace for melting plastic sheets or curing a noxious liquid "plastigoop" in metal trays to make rubbery insects and other shapes. Stunk up the whole house! I loved that toy, but it mysteriously disappeared one day while my brother and I were at school.
I also got a toy sewing machine at age seven that really sewed. It was operated by hand crank but it worked. When I was eleven my grandmother gave me a real sewing machine, but I actually learned to sew with that toy, and at age 19 I went to work as a tailor for a couture fashion designer, a job I loved. I never have "sewed my finger" as most adults said would happen. I learned to be careful.
Learning the origins of words like "mangle" and phrases like "off the cuff" were not what I expected from this video, but are a welcome surprise.
What if all the exercisms were just on people that had been poisoned by strictnine? (Forgive spelling I can’t seem to get those words right.) The body contorts in the exact same way as they portray the bodies of people possessed … 🧐🧐
Beautiful
Could also have been rabies or tetanus, which cause similar contractions.
yes could be that and also some might of been having a seizure
Funny how beauty standards change. The upper class Edwardians didn't want to be seen having the tanned skin of the working class but wanted pale skin. Today, we value the opposite. Pale skin is a sign of an indoor life and no sun exposure, meaning, no vitamin D, and tanned skin is a sign of a healthy, outdoor lifestyle that prioritises physical activity.
When I cook meat, chicken, fish etc I always wipe the cutting surface with a wet cloth, then put the cloth to soak in kettle-boiled, hot, soapy water for 10 minutes, then I rinse it and pop it into the microwave for two minutes. I then spray the surface with soapy detergent and wipe it off with the burning, hot microwaved rag carefully (as it is scalding hot). Finally, I spray the surface with anti-bacterial spray and wipe with a napkin, which I toss in the bin. The rag gets soaked again for 10 minutes in fresh kettle-boiled hot water, then placed again in the microwave for two minutes. I then discard the rag in the laundry hamper awaiting wash day and I grab a brand new rag for use in the kitchen. My hands are regularly washed in the soapy water during this process, but, at the end of it all, I clean my hands with hand sanitiser. The knife gets soaked in the kettle-boiled, hot, soapy water then finally washed with a clean sponge, then rinsed with kettle-boiled hot water and bleach. I know this all sounds like too much hard work, but its a normal routine for me and if I don't do it, then I feel I'm exposing my family to salmonella because of my laziness.
My nana in the 1920’s stabbed a molester on the bus with her huge hat pin.
go nana
Great video and great host.
26:00 who made those stairs? Absolutely evil 😂 Makes me even less wanting to visit New York ever 😅
Steepest and narrowest steps I've climbed were in the Colosseum.
cant wait for a remake based on the 21st century
I wonder what they will say we are doing poorly in 100-200 years time.
The fact that we have had roughly 200 years of innovation and exploration up until today since the start of the industrial revolution, i wonder what human will look back on to today and think "What were they thinking, they're mad!" or "Oh, they didn't know better" Like we're looking back to those smoking to cure asthma or soap with arsenic advertisements.
Very nice to see so many women scientists and other contributors in this well balance and fact based documentary.
Who cares what sex they are
You make the very point why the post was heavy with emotion, lacked objectivity, and got worse with every depicted historical period.
We have a home in my town with servants Stairs going from the kitchen up to their quarters. The tread on the steps is 4in wide 6in rise. With a curve at the bottom and top.
fascinating stuff here
Only a few years ago in Auckland NZ a council inspector was killed when inspecting a sewer drain and a gas pocket blew up.
Dr. Susannah Lipscomb is surely fine !
There is a funny way how some steps are built. It was in Tübingen where there were 123 steps for reaching a house. The architect had changed them according to the music scale do re mi fa sol la si do. For the new comer it was dangerous but the people living in the house it was automatic and felt nice.
So rhythmic
The whole adulterating food still goes on to this day....
I made the mistake of watching this while I ate dinner.😅😢
Had to bow out but extremely fascinating and well made❤
I own a half million dollar house that was built less than 10 years ago in the USA.. I fell only on the second step because of the tread being far too narrow for my foot. I broke my wrist! I have to side step the basement stairs hanging on to handrail. To make matters worse they are carpeted.
Hello 😮🙏🤗 & I hope you are better now from the fall & injuries. Sounds like it's time to remodel the stairs . Possibly let the worker live in the basement or a room for 6 months to s year for exchange to up grade your property to better safer stairs & condition. Have a good day 😁😊 🌹
Ever just sit back and think how lucky you are to be here? And how did anyone survive 😮
Today we still live in ignorance, and considering that the younger generation never reads a book. I see no way of rectifying this sad state.😢
. . . that assumes they can read at all.
@@miata1492 lol you do bring up an important consideration. Between believing in aliens and a flat earth, their world is one of constantly changing memes.... Poor things
Luv you guys!
It's "A million ways to die in Victorian England!"
Woke up to this video playing 😵💫 interesting nonetheless
Why do i always fall asleep to this
Best book related to this video is Bill Bryson’s History of Private Life - riveting
What was required for a second story home or elevated sleeping? Chimney - most relied on thatched roof to migrate smoke out of elevated living areas. Also probably controlled some insect pests too
Why old European churches often raised or elevated surrounding property? Often local cemeteries around church & Europe doesn’t practice the idea of a permanent headstone - so there are many centuries of bodies buried on top of each other.
Awesome info, but i couldnt help but notice how whenever someone is talking about fatalities, or symptoms, they are smiling. Otherwise theyre quite somber looking. Kind of unnerving for some reason. "Ammonia caused hundreds of deaths 😃"
I would love to time travel to 400 years from now and have the same documentary about all the stuff we use nowadays: Common salt will be named a highly toxic product. Monosodium Glutamate and mononatrium glutamate are common flavor enhancers but in 400 years people will realize these are highly toxic. Most of our clothing will be called highly flammable. There are all kinds of cleaning products like Dettol hygienic cleaner that will be absolutely dangerous by then.
By the way: electrical fires in the homes are still a thing. Malfunctioning electrical equipment and installations is the 3rd reason for home fires.
I dunno about "salt" being toxic... Our bodies need it. Of course it's toxic in REALLY high amounts (anything is... even water), but we learned that quite some time ago
Future generations will look back at our times with disbelief on how we did nothing about global warming.
Future narrator: "The year is 2023. The last 9 out of 9 years were the hottest on record. It is 45 years after Exxon Mobil's scientists discovered climate change and 38 years after Carl Sagan spoke dire warnings to the US congress. By 2023 the USA, the richest, most powerful country in the world still has not taken any meaningful steps to address it. Today, Lake Mead (which once provided power and water to 25 million people in the west) is a dry lake bed with an abandoned power plant."
yep and not even that along ago around the 70’s we operated on babies without anesthesia or medication because we believed they couldn’t feel pain
Only complaint is the non sequential periods. I was thrown off when listening and all of a sudden it goes from Edwardian to Tudor.
Would’ve made much more sense starting at the earliest time period working its way forward.
When people say thry wanna eat organic and raw milk I shake my head. Thinking. So/y'all want tuberculosis of the bones huh?
Great documentary. Smart & Pretty,,,dreamy! ;*
There is nothing wrong with the way that Kylie handles the horses. The only thing that I would check on is the the bridle on Shilow. It seems like it too short and the tongue constantly working. I'm not there but there were cues that the bridle being too short. Just an observation
Food industry is still adding cheap non food ingredients.
18:44 "quite dead" 😂
Is "quite dad" as opposed to just a "little dead?
hmmmm, adulterated foods filled with deadly non food items for appearance and profit? Some things never change.
Imagine how bad it would be without regulations. :(
@@TonyPombo imagine how responsible people might be of they realized regulation does nothing to benefit them.
@@amandaliberty08 "regulation does nothing to benefit them"
This is inaccurate. Regulations are what force food companies to list ingredients on the packaging so that responsible people can make informed decisions on whether to eat that item.
Regulations ban certain substances like arsenic in food. Without regulation, arsenic could be added to food _and_ not disclosed to the consumer.
I cannot think of a scenario where allowing a company to sell a snack where they have injected *known* poison and not tell anyone should be allowed. Can you?
@@TonyPombo high fructose corn syrup
@@amandaliberty08 Correct. You can thank regulation. Without it, we would not know high fructose corn syrup is in our food.
59:13 is Dan Andrews!
I'm actually related to Lily Langtry. So weird to think about LOL!
Terrifying
Great video, should be taught at schools
The poo from 100000 horses would be quite a pile?
2:32:18 what kinda games at christmas were they playin
Less regulation has had a disproportionate impact on employees and other non-wealthy people.
This is why the wealthy always fight against regulations.
Explosion but finely cold tea
The mangle I am still not quite understanding, I get fingers and a hand but I don't understand a head, I thought it was hand cranked is that not correct? If it is automatic, I could understand more, but my other question do the rollers separate apart more? If not how does a bigger body part fit, I don't mean to sound stupid, just not sure how the machine works
I guess that the child climbed on it and the mangel fell over on the child, same can hapend with some furniture, this things are heavy.
Hair getting caught in it?
I wonder if the common term “mangled” came from the mangle 🤔
I like this channel, but haven't subscribed for 1 reason...
You black out the newpaper articles and I'm trying to read. Why do that?
They read it to you and the grey isnt so dark that you can't read through it.
@@SorrensSorrow I speed watch youtube videos. I like to jump to the next thing sometimes and I can't see what that is. I hate it.
@@amethyst777 I understand I watch some vids at 2x but I also will pause something if I want to read it.
@@SorrensSorrow Can't read it if it's blacked out, and if paused the play button ends up right in the middle too.
Do you just like to argue? LOL
I mean, are you the subscriber police or commenter police?
Why do you care?
@@amethyst777 you can click near the top of the screen to make the controls hide. Lol no I am not the subscriber police. I just thought it was a shame as you said you liked the channel.
'quite dead' oh British are such a hoot.
The Western world depended on synthetic materials to enhance and heal, while the Eastern world utilized the Earth. Yet, westerners were considered progressive and looked down on easterners. This really makes you think from where our modern-day habits stem.
The sound effects are brutal🤐
I went to school, where asbestos was used as insulation
People were so stupid back then.
*washes down a sleeve of Oreos with a liter of Mountain Dew*
FYI despite what this documentary would have you believe the victorians were NOT the first ones to practice and love personal hygiene- the Ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Vikings just to name a few were really into personal hygiene and that was hundreds to thousands of years before the victorians 🤷🏻♀️ Also no hate to the brits but it's so annoying that some of them especially in the history community always try to claim everything- Rome/Romans a civilization that came before us? It's Roman Britain. Personal hygiene? We started it. etc etc y'all are plenty amazing on your own with your own strengths and history to be proud of you don't need to claim other civilization's stuff 🤦🏻♀️
3:00 FRAUD HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE NATURE OF SOME HUMANS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME!!! I SAY HUMAN BECAUSE TO BE A HUMAN BEING A PERSON NEEDS TO BE HONEST, EMPATHIC AND BE HUMANE!!!
They didnt have orange colored flowers or leaves?
Victorian home was a place of SANK!!-shry... i love it
After seeing these episodes I realized how bulls**t those nostalgia fanatics are who keep saying that the past is the golden age of humanity. I am very lucky that I live in today's world and my fututr descendants will be way more luckier than me.
I wish I could understand you and hear you
Spooky!!!
Same song like today.. : 🎶we have something new,and you have to work for and buy it!!🎶 Not to ask about any maybe dangers!! 💰 🧐 👍
bull dust.. i take borax every day... what a load of tripe
so putting poison in our food isnt a new thing.
open windows damn
"I'd like a roll of arsenic green wallpaper please!"
Watching her turn the pages of those ancient books without gloves made me CRINGE! Why bother putting the book in the stand with a pillow if she's handling it barehanded???
Glorificus?
The host of this show is quite beautiful 😍
" . . . for those who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like." [quoting Maggie Smith in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." ]