The Home Electrical - 1915 (Reprint 1980)
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2012
- Man shows off his household applicances in his all-electric home to a visitor. The kitchen, the dining room, other rooms in the house. Sewing machine, vacuum cleaner, electrically heated pan, toaster. Stove, washing machine. Cigar lighter.
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honey, you have to remember to turn off the electric iron!
our electric bill was damn near 4¢ this month!
We are on the same track. My thought was what happened when they ran the electric heater and got a bill for $8.00 ....Edit.... . For those in warm areas , electric heat is the least cost effective way to heat a house
My favorite part is the hot soldering iron dangling at eye level.
Or the cord ready to choke an unsuspecting person's throat.
use it at that level to cook the snot in your nose by inserting soldering iron into nostril.
Totally crazy.
Yup anyone walked into that they were in trouble 😬
@@seaofmadness2622 anyone from this time, at that time people were smarter and more conscious about things arround. Today you give a lego to a kid will shock to dead because they are stupider
The bathroom was a freaking death trap !
I lived in a house built in 1906 for awhile, the bathroom light was hung over the tub. When you stood up in the tub the bulb was just inches away from your face.
( The house had no shower ).
Honey, take our guest into the bathroom and show him the many ways to get killed.
I'll be downstairs running the mangler, i mean washing machine
@@tommypetraglia4688 my wife is named Tommy? Sweet Tommy, you feel so good in my arms while my shaft is pumping you.
@@hoodagooboy5981 i lived in a house about turn of the century or 1890 that was retro fitted in the 1930's and never updated ... we had steel cabinets and the bathroom had one light and one outlet both built into the mirror over the sink with hot and cold faucets and the rest of the three beds upstairs besides the bathroom had i think just one outlet
That explains the average age of death at around 42 back then.
I like how he picks up the window shopper down town, drives him out to the residential area where he lives, shows him around the house, takes him to the door, and says goodbye.
his ev ran out of juice!!
Lol that is funny
You couldn't do that now a days because the guy would come back when you were not home and rob you
Richard Joubert yeah, things used to be so much better then. The racism, segregation, mafia etc.
I thought it was the beginning of a gay porn flick
*The House of* *Preventable Accidents*
LMAO !!
"Let me hang this electrified shaving mug above a sink full of water'
'Let me just hang this soldering iron with hot lead dripping off it a face level'
'Let me show you my electric cigar lighter phone, too. Keep it off the ear son, you'll burn.
No wonder my great grandmother was terrified of electricity. 😂
Oh, I laughed and spat wine on my screen.
Andrew Dean
Lol, try reading. Yes I put the labels on bleach hoping you would not drink it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Andrew Dean
Lol, you picked up on the parody satire 👍😉
About fifty years ago, I was working for the mother of a friend, who sold built-in vacuum systems, modern versions of the one shown here at 1:59. We were called to a pre-earthquake home in the Oakland hills that had a problem with their built-in vacuum, which was probably installed around the time of this film in 1915 or thereabouts. My boss wanted to sell the old lady a new system, but I was able to repair the old one, and secretly advised the customer to stick with it, because it was better built than the new ones.
This is wild, we are actually looking at people and a home from over 100 years ago.
@Me The wildest thing for me is, when I look closely at their facial expressions while looking past the period garb and decor, they look exactly like us today.
Yeah, and we better save these videos, we will probably need them again soon enough. The "Global Reset" is coming; who knows how well that will be received. I don't think people are going to go along with it.
@@diedonner299 I was thinking the same thing.
So cool!
@Richard Head Too primitive? Yeah, because electric cattle and vacuum cleaner will look like a friggin spaceship, right?
The fact they have a maid to vacuum, iron, serve dinner and tend to a sick child really says a lot about the class of people that could even afford these things.
servants were cheaper back then and it was more common to have help
@@bobloblaw9679Yes, my grandmother on my dad's side hired a maid sometimes. They were hardly well off. ...The two of them and seven kids in the tiniest house. The maid was likely poorer or needed extra money.
The electric cigar-lighter looks like a candlestick telephone.
“Hey Bob! How‘d you burn your lips?”
“The phone rang and I answered the cigar-lighter.”
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣you’ve gave me a laugh during lockdown.Thanks👍🏴
I just laughed and laughed! Thank you!
Something the 3 stooges would do
😂
excuse me as i rinse my live GE electric shaving cup directly in the sink
The poor guy is driven to his friend's house and then has to make his own way back
But, that wasn't his friend!! Lmbo! Just some guy he met window shopping 😂😂
@@pigsnum1 I think Mr. Wise owned the store.
I dunno. You pick up a guy at the appliance store & all you get is a cigar and a quick fiddle with his gadgets...
Naughty!............lol....
You must hook-up at a plumbing supply store if you want to lay some pipe.
@@alfredmorency8296 That must be where I've been going wrong all these years.
Hanging out with a bunch of other faeries........lol..
@@bunnyfoofoo9695
Just find a guy browsing the window of an electrical store, take him back to the house and introduce him to the wife.
@@anonUK Difficult thing seeing I'm a straight female faery..........lol..
This is so wild, seeing a fully electric (probably concept) house in a film from a time period when my grandparents were but little children! I can't imagine my impoverished grandparents would've been raised in this manner but definitely see this level of technological advancement becoming affordable to my grandparents' economic level when they were teenagers and young adults in the 1920s. And thinking forward, it's wild that even by the time my parents were born in the 1940s all this would have been considered outdated and an old-fashioned way of living.
I was shocked that they had a central vacuum back in those days
Yes, I was very surprised.
Villa Vizcaya in Miami Florida had that along with refrigerator and central heating back in 1914,when they first started to build the place.
Better than central heating!
@@EddieFox it could of served as both warm air heating and vacuum outlets.
Best invention ever!!!
Notice that this house doesn't have electrical outlet plugs at the bottom of the walls yet. They have to get power for these devices by screwing a threaded base into a light-bulb socket. And the exposed belts and moving parts of the washing machine and the main electric motor in the basement are of great danger if clothing - or a hand - got caught in them.
i noticed that. a osha inspector would freak out now seeing that with the maid working around it.
Worse yet would be getting a tit caught in the wringer. I have no doubt that expression was born, of real life events at a time, before bras became common place.
I was wondering why all those wires were coming from the ceiling area. Thanks for the info. Early inventions are fascinating if not downright odd.
it sounds like a way to get electrocuted as well as a house fire. growing up in the '50's and '60's i remember seeing a lot of old houses like that. screw a 2-3 plug adapter into a ceiling socket and run cords to wherever in the room. dangerous.
and that's why women kept there hair short for the next 50 or so years. That shit likely would get caught up in all the moving parts of the machinery back then.
Back then when safety wasn't even a word!
These people were our guinea pigs.
Well there’s a reason the rules changed 😂
A hundred years ago, electricity must have seemed miraculous! Thanks for posting!
in many ways it was a miracle but people died and homes/businesses burned down from bad wiring and devices 100 years ago in 1918. these were the incidents that shape our electrical codes today.
it is very easy to judge the past. they were learning
Debra Kirkwood , true, but the safety blunders they missed then, like fans with high speed metal blades and almost no protection, motor drive belts with no protection, electrical outlets on the ceiling, with cord dangling from, the list goes on. Glaring blunders!
@@roadmaster720 And, people STILL die in electrical fires even today!
@@TheOzthewiz that is true today. idiots overload a circuit with extension cords and too much power draw or do shoddy electrical work to their homes not knowing what they are doing. a certain recipe for death.the problem is worse in old homes that still use glass fuses and the old cartridge fuses in the main box. people used to replace the blown glass fuses with pennies. fire and death usually followed. the circuit breaker has decreased some deaths that way.
Just the fact that nobody died during this recording was a feat for General Electric back in 1915
People had to rely more on their common sense to keep out of danger in those days.
@Richard Head lol, or the always hillarious "remove wrapper before eating".
Richard Head , two things.
1. The label won't help much. (Many people can't read.)
2. Common sense isn't very common anymore.
@@jeromewysocki8809 And, you can't FIX stupid!
Sorry....they are not stupid or whatever else they’re called here. Electricity was a new “concept”. People had zero knowledge of its dangers. Common sense and intuition have absolutely no bearing on an outcome with something that is unknown to them. Much as any of you would have if you came across a steel ball that looked like a ball bearing if you will. Would you intuitively know that it might be plutonium ? Of course not. Same rules apply.
Imagine people in 100 years looking back and thinking our technology was strange and primitive.
We're quite advanced for the time being though...
But will society be here 100 years from now? We might tech ourselves out of existence!
@@thenameosborntremaine1661 100 years before this video there was no hot and cold running water, no indoor plumbing, no telegraph, no bikes, no airplanes, no trains as they were just being invented.we had wooden boats and everyone got around on horseback or walked
@Richard Head Yes I'm sure they did.
@@philtripe Yep, time marches on.
This was 105 years ago. Things changed so much in the past 105 years, I can only imagine how much they will change in the next 105 years.
I dunno...we may have hit a plateau.
Pretty sure I won't be around.
You ever see Logan's Run? It'll be sort of like that.
I suspect by then it will only be radioactive dust. :-(
Love that dress she is wearing! The fashions from 1910-1920 are one of my favorites.
Me too
This is so charming! Mr and Mrs Wise are that cool couple you're friends with (and a little jealous of) who always have the latest gadgets. Today that's "smart everything", in 1915 it was electricity :)
A couple lived 2 houses down from us and they both worked at Sears, made good money, and got to combine their discounts. They were first with everything, remote control TV, VCR, video camera, so much stuff. They let me clean their pool.
Geoff Graham that’s awesome, how long as was this?
@@clevage3332 This was 1975 - 1980. He had a stereo stack taller than I was, with a lot of Marantz in it. He got a brand new 76 Jeep Golden Eagle and took me down to the creek in it. He hit 2 feet of water doing about 30, man that makes a big splash when you're 11. He also had multiple Elsinores, but never let me ride one.
Geoff Graham Marantz was a status symbol in the 1970s. 😀🌼👍🏻
Imagine if you absent-mindedly entered a room and got hit on the head by a hot soldering iron!
Ria V , in the same idea, someone might not know what it is, and grasp the wrong end of the iron.
They probably turned the switch off when they left the room, can't imagine that iron being on all day and night. And yeah, you would likely get hit on the head, but NOT with a HOT iron!
That was a nice soldering iron actually. I wonder if that model is still for sale..
In that case I would have been badly injured or dead.
What a fascinating glimpse into the state-of-art technology of the past! My late grandfather was born in 1915 in Benton Harbor, MI. I doubt his family had any of these conveniences, save for perhaps a few electric lights. However, when he built his own house in the early '50s, he made sure my grandma had all electric appliances. (She believed gas appliances were dangerous and difficult to clean.) All the outlets, the baseboard heaters, the range, and even the toaster were still fully functional when he passed in 2005. They don't make 'em like that anymore!
Not sure if "electric lighted cigars" are a quantum leap over matches.
they worked out in cars.
My grandparents were married in 1919 and from what I can recall of my conversations with them, they were a struggling young couple and the first electric items they bought other than lamps were a toaster, an iron, a fan, and a small space heater. Sewing machine, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, refrigerator, and a radio came years later. I have a GE fan from 1914 that still works with the original wiring. (it is used only for demonstrations and not daily use) The points that were made about the dangers because they lacked proper guards for belts and blades is valid and those shortcomings were eventually corrected but at the time the quality and longevity of those devices made us the envy of the world.
Wonderful. this is a very precious video. Thanks for uploading it.
I would lose that key in 5 minutes lol
Nothing a screw and a chain can't fix. Of course, it would be a lot better to just use a switch and keep it high enough to avoid kids playing with it.
All very mysterious what goes down to that basement via the hose .
Central vacuums are still a thing. I certainly didn't realize they were one of the fist vacuums though....very cool.
Guy 1: "Hey stranger, wanna come see all the new ways we're gonna burn our house down?"
Guy 2: "Indubitably!"
That is the first thing I thought of. That place is a fire trap. Bad enough how many electrical fires still happen today. With those flimsy cords and unprotected appliances it would be disaster.
BEAVACUDA , then the house burns down.
Guy 2: "Splendid!"
LMAO !!! LOL !!! Indubitably 'Ol Chap !! LOL !!!
@@dlb4299 Not to mention overloading the limited circuits in the house. The wires in the attic must have been glowing orange.
@@dlb4299 Well, mostly happening of old deteriorated insulation. We have few houses here with 4-6 fireplaces and they were all burn because of electrics. Bummer.
One of the most dangerous I've seen was called an electric table cloth. Sort of a thin quilt with live wires sewn into it that you plug appliances into.
Wtffff
@@fujifrontier As featured in "Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home". The video is on YT, as is "Hidden Killers of the Postwar Home", which is REALLY scary, because it includes things my parents grew up with. And asbestos, which is still everywhere, and which killed my father with mesothelioma that developed 60 years after he worked at Johns-Manville for 9 months.
@@OofusTwillipthe ,,hidden killers" series was exactly what popped into my mind when seeing this video😳, watched it so many times.
1915 and they have more electrical gadgets in their house than I do! I definitely need one of those corded heated shaving cups..
My 1955 cape still has 60 amp service. At max draw wirh every appliance running it draws 45 amps
The idea that you could cook or heat without fire/flame was an amazing thing. So many things still work on electricity...just look at how lost people are when there's a blackout for a few days.
bixbybixby modern civilisation works on electricity, what do you mean ‘so many things STILL work on electricity’ what a weird statement. As if electricity is somehow outdated or we have moved on to something else?!
@@handsoffmycactus2958 Gas appliances are still VERY popular because of lower operating costs. The "gas" refrigerators of the '50s are gone and gas TVs never arrived! However, the "all electric" dream homes that were predicted in the '50s, became ,and will remain a fantasy! The "penny cheap" electricity was just advertising hype!
My house is all electric. Build in 2001.
3:25 Did that man just place an space heater at bath tub level?
Patrick Murphy Yes, he was the inspiration for the warning labels we see today.
It goes along with the fans that had the blades out in the open so little Tommy and Sally could have their hands chopped off as they got cool.
It's a miracle everyone survived the early days of home electricity.
Not everyone did. Lol
This would have been an extremely luxurious home for that era.
It is so gratifying old film like this still exists. Love watching this kind of stuff. How far we have advanced.
I think those two guys fancied each other, they kept linking arms. Cute
Kyle i noticed that hehe
It was just mutual.
The house that tries to kill you every second
exactly..i was thinking the same
sounds like a stephen king novel idea.
"your honor, i saw reddy kilowatt crawl out of that light socket and personally observed him choking the deceased with an electric bolt wrapped around her neck" " poor miss donnelly never had a chance in her new electric home built in 1915."
Back then,stupid people did not live long!
I like the plugged in mug in the bathroom. Yeah, that looks super safe.
That's a 1910 New Jersey license plate on the front of Mr. Wise's small electrical car at 1:00.
It's still a horseless carriage.
Lol when I saw the house first thing I thought was “Fair Lawn” or “Teaneck”
That car must have come equipped with an extra long extension cord!
@Rolf Jander Airplane joke.
@@davidtosh7200 whoresless carriage
Fascinating. When things are first invented, you gotta start somewhere and this is it.
Holy cow! It's a wonder anyone survived the early days of electricity.
or before
Mr. Wise didn't drive Mr. Newhouse home?
Same thought here.
He dumped him in the burbs miles from home and no way to get there
No, but Mr Newhouse got a new electric car out of the deal.
Mrs.Wise to Mr.Wise : "Grr. Yeah, just bring this guy home without giving me notice. How about using that OTHER electrical device we have? You know, the TELEPHONE! " ... haha
Mr. Wise: Now, honey....
Mr and Mrs Wise don't fight as often these days, not since she got that other electrical device prescribed to her by her psychiatrist to "prevent hysteria".
Annabel Grace Actually telephones were not electric. They operate on a different deal. That's why phones worked even when power was out ...until cordless phones came along
Deb Carsey
I did not know that
@@mrs.schmenkman2858 Telephones needed very little power to operate, so indeed they are electric, but the phone companies had battery backup when the power did go out. It ran on a different electrical system ( low voltage)
The sheer amount of current flowing to this house for this many simultaneous elements and heavy motors must be mind boggling. It's be burning the cotton off the insulation they used in the walls!
Some of this stuff looks dangerous as hell.
Amazing! One home, so many sources of ignition. This house would not have lasted a week before being burned to the ground.
And that night the home burned down to the ground because they forgot to turn off the electric cigar lighter.
😂
Nokomarie the only thing left amongst the ashes was Mrs. Wise letter detailing her unbridled love for electricity.
LOL !!!
OMG 😂
Some Technology used in those days haven't much changed since,like that coffee percolator ,kettle and toaster.
It's just nowadays it's all made of plastic, in Asia no less.
that's true. today's devices have the electrical parts enclosed, toasters have the elements enclosed unlike the version of 1918. forget the toast browning and set the house on fire. automatic now and shuts off when bread pops up toasted or burnt . 2018 appliances safer but chinese junk. buy a new one every year now. GFI circuits do save lives in the kitchen and bathroom now unlike 100 years ago in 1918.
Soldering iron is virtually the same
@@roadmaster720 you get what you pay for.
@@yixnorb5971 Yup, GE kept making those appliances they showed in the video for over a hundred years, until whole division was sold to the Chinese in 2016.
Love all those exposed belts and pulleys...OSHA would have a cow!
Relax, this house might be the only reason why you have OSHA!
Paul Kile , my parents had an electric fan like the one in this video. It was a General Electric model. There was minimum, inadequate screening around the powerful fast moving blades. As a kid, I remember chopping up wooden pencils in the fan. The blades did a number on them, and I never told my parents about why all the pencils were "missing." I came to my senses finally, before getting hurt.
I think people back then were just used to being around dangerous things. Think about horses and wagons and fire used for heating, lighting and cooking. All mechanical devices were pretty much guard free. You had to be aware of your surroundings constantly. Electricity probably felt as safe as you could get.
NEWS FLASH, OSHA stands for "Occupational Safety and Health Administration"! Has NOTHING to do with "RESIDENTIAL" conditions!
@@jaycummings8116 The desk fans GE made until about 1910 had exposed brass screw contacts for the supply (usually 120VAC but varied) on the back of the motor. For a bit, the speed switch was in the front of the base so these contacts accepted the output of the switch and fed the motor....meaning there was a chance they were not always"hot" when the fan wasn't turned on (but without polarized plugs that was a gamble). After about 1904 or so, things got WORSE when they moved the speed switch to the back of the motor right above these contacts, which now were fed from the line voltage and therefore always hot. It was very easy to reach behind the fan to make a speed adjustment and get zapped. Also during this time the line cord was not included in the purchase of the fan so you had to buy your own and attach it to the fan as well as install the male end of your choice to plug or screw in to your electrical service.
Blade guards were standard ( and minimal) by this time but go back a few years and they too were an optional extra cost item.
And I believe the GE logo was designed to fit into the front center of those fan guards.
Luncheon was served and the baby who looked more like he’s 10 is being tucked in upstairs?
Same thought here, lol.
@@maryannredfern5954 the kid was a baby huey.
Kid was in bed sick ?
Babies used to be bigger in those days before efficiency regulations.
Hey, I read cursive! Little sick kid's named Betty and she's doing a lot better now because of their electrical appliances. 😉 Of course, the idea of charging for the use of the electricity hadn't been concocted yet. 😂
Drove to the house in an electric car, the past becomes the future. Note the direction the cords go, not down for the most part, but up, Used the old socket plugs to a lamp sconce, probably with a splitter. I have several of the bulb heaters, several GE fans, the exact model cigar lighter as well as another, the plugs and a few of the other items. Excellent video, just when electric was getting more popular and affordable to the middle class.
If they had lived in Escondido, Calif. at that time, they could only have run those appliances at night because the town's one electric generator only ran between sundown and midnight.
That's why they are promoting electrical appliances. So there would be a steady Day time demand. Samuel Insull who started Com Ed and was Thomas Edison's right hand man, bought Electric train co.s because the trains ran in.the day time so his power plants would have daytime demand. Up until 1930 in was common for Electric trains,, factories, and colleges to have their own.power plants.
It's so handy, all this expensive and marvelous electrical equipment! Too bad about all the unsightly and dangerous cables running everywhere, ready to trip you up at any moment.
No plastic in THAT house!
Yes! REAL WOOD, not that "genuine" imitation pressure treated cardboard wood with the "genuine" plastic wood veneer!
@@TheOzthewiz Maybe a bit of Bakelite, which had been patented in 1909.
I need one of those electric cigar lighters for my back pocket.
LOL !!
That GE box at the end that lit up was cool
From hindsight, it is easy to say how dangerous this house was.
How about present day's novelties? Think abiut all the chemicals and fake stuff that surrounds us; how safe is that? We'll know more in 100 years!
I'm sure all the chemicals and fake stuff has nothing to do with all the modern health conditions of today ( think ADHD, Immune disorders, etc).
riverraisin1 How are you sure?
My great grandparent's age... I love this.
Same here.
November 2022 These older videos are precious. THANK YOU ❤️ 😊 🙏
That GE space heater at the end is cool looking and is even equipped with mood lighting.
And they are seconds away from igniting the Mrs's flouncy dress sitting that close
Wow, things sure have changed in just 103 years. At the beginning of the video, you'd never see me get into a random car with a stranger and drive over to his house, just to check out his electricity.
In those days people would hop into any car with just a wave and some eye contact. It was considered neighborly. Cars were slow and often had no roof or doors or windows so it was no more dangerous than if you sat at the bus stop with a stranger.
I want that car.
Imagine the guy being picked up's disappointment if he thought the stranger was picking him up off the street to take him home for a little gay fun and all the guy did was take him to his house and show him all of his electrical appliances.
@@TheBobbybbc Maybe back then, they had code words for it. Like, "Hey man, wanna come over to my place and check out my lightning rod?" Hmmm.
People, back then , were much more trusting of one another! Even in the '50s, a man's word was his bond, a promissory note was all you needed to get a loan!
I appreciate the historic aspects of this film. The people alive at that time who dealt with electrical technology were true pioneers. Many people were fearful of electricity, even though it had been around since the 1880's. In 1915 things were catching on. Light switches and electrical outlets were not standardized as yet, but people were willing to take a chance on something new...
And to think 1 of my grandparents was 8, and the other 3 were 3 yrs. old when this was made.
Mine were 16 on down to 2 years old at the time. Interesting observation.
I was calculating that as well. Paternal gf was 2, maternal gf was born that year. Both grandmothers were born 2 years later in 1917. Im 50 btw.
My grandmother was born that year, and my grandfather was 7. It's amazing that it was so long ago yet we all knew people who were alive that long ago.
What a wonderful movie!
Can't wait for the sequel
Now I understand why women of the day, all the way up into the late 60s, kept their hair short or tied up. Safety wasn't much of a thought back then and I imagine those with hair dangling down got it caught up in gears and machinery and it was a helluva disaster at times for them.
Not true
Yup I was thinking the same thing! Ouch that sure would be painful
@@seaofmadness2622 just thinking about hair getting jerked into moving machinery makes my head hurt.
@MKrip808
You imagine correctly about the hair dangling down.
I was born in Oklahoma and lived here all my life.
I was a child in the 1960's when I heard some shocking news on the radio one morning.
There were people harvesting vegetables by hand in a field where a mechanical harvester was in operation in that same field at the same time.
A young lady nearly lost her life when her long "pony-tail" (popular hair style at that time) was caught-up in the machinery as she came too close to the moving works of it.
She did survive, but suffered the loss of an ear and much of her scalp.
Nonsense, hairstyles had nothing to do with safety. There were plenty of long hairstyles in any period. This is a perfect example of taking an historical observation and making an incorrect general assumption. This is particularly common type of mistake made by younger people who never lived in, or actually studied the period.
I remember adapters that were in the overhead light sockets that you plugged the iron into so you light and were able to iron the clothes. Happy days.
This is awesome! To see something from this long ago is amazing
Right in the middle of the first bit there's an Edison amberola (mechanical wind-up phonograph)
It is very safe to invite a complete stranger to your home.
gay pick up line " come see my all electric home"
hate to bust your cherry but your not my type. sorry pal
oh,boo-hoo my little twinkie.
Those two guys were into eachother. I ship them. They were linking arms the whole time
Back then they didn't care lol
Electricity, and those infernal motorcars, will NEVER catch on! ;) .
We had a toaster like that when I was a kid!
The GE Monitor Top refrigerator....the motor on top of the frig...was actually first-rate. They ran for years. Eventually consigned to the basement to keep the beer cold after mom talked dad into a shiny new model.
Im sure Mrs Wise appreciated having strangers milling about her house day and night 😚
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And to think that this only became accessible to most in the mid/late 30s, and for rural populations the 50s and 60s.
Priceless.
Very Amazing and so interesting 😊. We never stop to think when using all our electronics ~ Thanks for posting~ I Love her dress 🌻💐
A lot of people today seem to forget that just a hundred years ago, there were still people wiping their arse via candlelight in an outhouse out behind the house. It can be hard to imagine, with all of our modern conveniences and electrical devices, but, electricity (as we know it) is a fairly new invention. It wasn't too long ago that if you wanted light in your house at night, you needed to burn something. Be it coal oil, or "town gas", or something else, you had to burn something to make light.
I know a house that was built in 1920. It was built with an outhouse and electricity. Sometime in the 1990s they updated the electrical system to something a lot safer. The bathroom was added probably sometime in the 1940s from the style of everything. Same for the kitchen. Yep, it did not have a kitchen inside, it used a "summer kitchen" detached from the house that has since been removed, probably due to the addition of the modern kitchen.
I kind of think a lot of people today would just die if they had to cook over a wood stove year-round and do so by candle or lamplight and had to deal without having air conditioning (another fairly modern invention). No microwave, no computers, no phones, no internet, nothing electrical. Sounds boring. It was, and that is why people in the past got so much done. When you have no distractions, you get bored, and eventually, you get bored to the point that you find something to do to pass the boredom. Tada, progress.
03:07 "And this is our electric chair!"
Underrated comment
I was waiting to see the wife get her dress or hair caught in the spinning flywheels of the washer!😵
She should have wore some pants.
I just love how they have maids on every floor even with all of these electrical appliances! I guess someone had to operate them!
Imagine taking someone home from the train station today and then meeting his wife... then says let's go upstairs so we can show you the equipment!
In the future people can look back at an old house with everything controlled by bluetooth...
Great to see! Thanks for sharing..it makes me more appreciative of the even better electrical appliances of today! Geez they had to start a motor in the cellar? Wow
Sea Of Madness we still have central vacuums today- still a motor in the cellar.
@@spencerwilton5831 yes but you dont have to go in a cellar to start it. That would be annoying
@ 1:16....that home was built without power tools or trucks carrying bldg materials.
Sadly, immediately after this was filmed they were all electrocuted while bathing together. It was the electric shaving cup what done it. 😣😣
I was thinking of how many dangerous things were going on in this house and then the wife mentions the baby!! If they are lucky the child won't get electrocuted and burn the house down!
I do love the heavy, wooden furniture! That stuff was built to last, unlike furniture today! And then the 1940's came and young people either threw their grandmother's furniture away or hacked off all the decorative bits to "modernize" it, which ruined it of course. *sigh*
And then they started painting that beautiful oak, cherry and maple furniture!
show us the electrical device for relieving symptoms of female hysteria
Who knew General Electric had electric ovens, stoves, washing machines, soldering irons and shaving lather heaters in 1915?
Nothing like bringing a guest into a house full of multiple chords hanging from every ceiling in every room. Cerebral anoxia! 😮
Honey, take our guest into the bathroom and show him the many ways to get killed.
I'll be downstairs running the Mangler, i mean washing machine
Did anybody else notice that most electrical outlets were located high up the walls or in the ceiling?
dovp44 A house wired for electricity originally just meant electric lighting. Once appliances began to appear, the only way to power them was using a lightbulb receptacle.
good analysis but it was 1915 not the late 1800's where electricity was used solely for lighting. Most of those appliances had already been around for 5 to 10 years by 1915, albeit in a rudimentary form.
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@@dovp44 I grew up in a house built in 1904. Wired for electrical when built (knob and tube). We only had 2 (original) baseboard receptacles: 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the dining room. At some point, as appliances became more common, someone had added makeshift electrical outlets to each room by tapping the lighting circuit in the ceiling box and running a wire (usually common drop or lamp cord) across the ceiling and down the wall to attach to a three outlet female receptacle screwed into the baseboard). The whole house ran on one 15 amp fused circuit. Amazing that it never burned down.
One day all houses Will have a 5000 watt soldering iron hanging from the ceiling!
No mention of the HUGE electricity ⚡ bill 😂😂😂
Don't forget the saving in coal, wood, gas, and matches.
@@mrdanforth3744 How do you think they generate electricity in 1915? Presumably by burning the fossil fuels you say they'll save!
@@marcse7en Not around here. I live about 200 miles from Niagara Falls. In 1915 it was the site of the biggest most powerful hydroelectric generator in the world. It was only one of the hydroelectric power plants that dotted the Great Lakes region. Hydro power is by far the best and cheapest power and for many years was so abundant very few coal power plants were required.
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Amo eletros, ainda mais agora que descobri que são tão antigos.
Just want to say thank you to all those who left funny responses...I LMAO... it left me in tears!
The only downside is we had to sell our children to pay the electric bill. 😢😢😢
At that time the wiring in the walls were bare wires connected to a fuse box.
I wonder what the light bill was back then in today's dollars.
For that house🤔 inflation 2020. 15-20 bucks a month.
That vacuum setup was used still today if you wanted just to hook up in any room still old fashion though.
Safety was still not of primary concern.
and it wouldn't be for another 60 years or so.
they were too stupid to realize the danger then.
In fairness, the whole industry was still in its infancy. There are people still today who want to wire their houses and workshops "on the cheap," so they still continue to ignore OSHA regulations, UL-approved appliances, good wiring practice, etc. When we found out that we had to rewire our house before we could purchase it (100-year-old house), I was upset, and yes, I wanted to keep the costs down (that we hadn't planned on investing in the first place), but the electrician I hired would have none of it. He wanted the job done right the first time, and I agreed with him, even though I muttered under my breath a couple of times. But he was right and I knew it, so I let him do his job. Came out wonderfully! Before we moved in, there was a jury-rigged system of four fuse boxes for a grand total of 60-amp service; yes, I do understand why the insurance company wanted that changed out! Especially with an electric stove!
They had NO idea about the dangers! Much like Atomic energy in later decades. Remember "duck and cover" in the event of an Atomic blast. Just make sure the EYES are covered, you'll be fine! LOL