How New Electricals Made The Edwardian Home A Deathtrap | Hidden Killers | Absolute History
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- The dawn of the 20th century and the reign of a new king ushered in an era of fresh inventions and innovations that transformed the way we lived. Electricity, refrigeration and a whole host of different materials promised to make life at home brighter, easier and more convenient. But a lack of understanding of the potential hazards meant that they frequently led to terrible accidents, horrendous injuries and even death.
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to an age when asbestos socks and radioactive toothpaste were welcomed into British homes. She reveals how their lethal qualities were discovered and why some of us are still living with the consequences of our Edwardian forebears' enthusiasm for untried and untested products.
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Everbody gangsta till an Edwardian lady pulls out her 14 inch hair pin
😂😂😂this is my favorite comment on here.
An elderly lady in a retirement home once gave a hat pin to keep me safe on my walk home.
She was so sweet. So it was so unexpected when she said.."you pin this on your lapel or inside of your sleeve and if anyone bothers you then POW!"
@@christinabrenneman7641 My dad told me to go by a 10 inch hat pin from the one of the local second hand stores. That was in early 1970s, Southern California. I found them too.
@@shychameleon nice! They are so easily hidden but so handy. 😂
14”? Damn..
Victorians: -[Fucking around like toddlers with gas lighting having absolutely no idea what they're doing]
Edwardians: "Hold my beer"
[plugs a lamp in underwater]
Well you would not have known the dangers today if it wasn't for them.
LOL
I’m sorry but I have horrible news. The Edwardian mentioned died via fatal electrocution after he spilled beer on his hand and plugged in a lamp
I did try not to laugh….I failed.
@@chrissymacneil3811 didnt fail as much as a Victorian trying to curl her hair
“Originally the cables were just wrapped up in paper and lead. A fantastic fire accelerant, brilliant.” 😂 I really like that guy.
He always talks like that
😂 Lead though? Tf 🤣
@@jordankuo6662 "Make sure they know it's lethal! Put some lead on it!"
It would be funny if he was your history teacher 😂
@@megangibbs4158 They really didn't think about Lead as that Poisonous. It was put in paint and everything.
Puts bleach and asbestos on the face
"At least I look beautiful"
Curls hair until it falls off
"At least I look beautiful"
eye drops that make you blind
"Well... at least I look beautiful, I think."
I am extremely grateful for the time I'm in now, and to the amount of work and progress that had to be made to get to this stage. It can be easy to forget how difficult it was.
and you’ll see people in these comments criticizing our modern day, which is fair, but at least our products are tested and safe for the most part and you don’t have to worry about dying from wearing a little bit of makeup
@@lukecremecheese597 not even tested and safe, we just know how things work now and understand things like grounding, ac, dc, short circuiting, etc.
Honestly, shit similar to this is still happening in places with little to no regulation. It isn't just a general ignorance that leads to this stuff, it's unregulated malicious pursuit of profit. Arguably moreso. If you allow people to go unchecked, they'll lie and put their customers in danger for every last penny.
@@Unholy_Mango un checked? 99 percent of regulations are things like he minimum wage, or taxes, or just bs that says things have to be a certain size, it does nothing but raise the operating costs and the barrier to entry for new competition. Companies won't go un checked, supply and demand exist and so do market forces, consumers are thinking people and should become thinking people, if we remove regulations it'll do nothing but lower the price of anything and put more responsibility on the consumer to choose responsibly. A pursuit of profits isn't malicious, its better then any other pursuit, and if we can remove all of the regulations in the way of people making their own free choices it would mean that the only thing that gets you profit is voluntary trading with people, so that you both end up with what you value more at the end, which is usually money in the case of the business, and it can be exchanged for almost anything.
@@Andrew-th8jk The pursuit of profit is better than any other pursuit? The onus is on the customer to not be deceived and harmed? Check it out guys, I found exactly the kind of person who would put lead paint on baby toys
the hostess playing dumb when the edwardian vibrator gets pulled out had me rolling.
I would like this comment but it’s at 69
@@pureicefire well it’s been surpassed. Nothing holding you back now 🥴
Where's the time stamp?
@@MoonFrogSanctuary 16:31 is when the device is pulled out. 16:50 is the reaction to hearing it “was also used for intimate purposes”
👱🏻♀️: “oh, so THAT what it is...”
@@MoonFrogSanctuary 16:32
It’s crazy to think about how many people have had to die for me to be safe and cozy
Yeah and one day people are gonna be saying the same shit about us.
Yes, this is so sad
I don't know why but your comment made me laugh out loud! Dark humour ha ha! Thanks for giving me a chuckle.
sacrifices have to be made in the name of progress :D
After binge watching these I'm getting the feeling that the people of these Eras (Victorian/Edwardian) just collectively decided that life was simply far too long, and healthy living far too dull.
@Deborah Ajao I don't know, for it was nothing but a Joke lol.
@Deborah Ajao Understandable
On the other hand -- ignorance is bliss. Life was hard enough that they naturally sought to take advantage of every new innovation to make it a little bit easier.
All of these videos are over exaggerated to give shock factor. These cases were NOT a widespread issue, and only happened to 10 people at most.
@Deborah Ajao I'm a historian, and I like to preserve my family tree. Out of 1000+ people from 1900-1930, the death that most closely resembles what they would put in one of these videos was from a child who stepped on a nail and got tetanus, before getting the tetanus shot and dying because of how much they gave him.
In google books, I searched up "Electrocuted" from 1901 to 1911 and got 37 pages of results. With each page having 10 results, that calculates to 370~ cases. Now, I'm not even taking into consideration that some might be the same case twice, or some might just be irrelevant, so take 37 cases a year by a grain of salt, cause it might even be less than that.
Also, almost every video likes to over exaggerate things since it gives shock factor, which increases watch time.
My great grandmother used to tell me stories of how her father's house was the first one to get electricity in the whole area and people would actually come to visit just to see how a lightbulb would come on and they were all amazed.
I remember when my friend was the first to have satellite TV.
People called by and asked what's it like. He said, "Before, I had four crap channels. Now, I have a hundred crap channels."
🛋
Honestly it's amazing humanity has survived for so long.
We got numbers on our side now!
Thanks our God (for some) Jesus Christ
Cerinaya for real
People don’t stop fucking.
@@darinhilbern3444 that's not a good thing
It makes us think of how many substances we may me using today that are considered safe, and they may be banned in the future
I think Its not that anyone thinks they are safe. They just havent had enough negative reprocussion to address needing to change many of the proven dangerous things we use or eat every day
I always wonder what wifi does to us
Wifi signals for sure. That shit ain't good for you
But it's everywhere 24/7.
@@Todo-1996 for a lot of people, adverse effects from wifi are just the nocebo effect (placebo, but instead of helping its hurting)
Edulcorants, lecitin, certain dishwashes, softeners and cheap cellphone radiation.
We are already there my friend.
“People got used to gaslighting” are we talking about Victorians or narcissists?
I FELT THAT _HELLO_
Edwardians
Bold of you to assume the Victorians weren't both
@@2-d_in_a_bag How do you italicize in comments? Cheers 🥂
@@made-line7627 put underscores (_) around words. i find it tricky when it's beside punctuation though.
Victorian and Edwardian motto sounds a lot like that catch phrase that goes... "I'm here for a good time not a long time."
I think Nike got their slogan from that era.
It was , thats a saying of my Dads lol....
“Fuck around and find out” also sums up those eras pretty well
Lol when she realizes she is holding a Edwardian vibrator 16:50
When they said it's supposed to be a massager I was like _sure_
I immediately thought of magic wands when I saw that. Both were originally meant to be massagers but ended up being sex toys lmao
Kinda hard to hide it from your mum
The doctors of the time would prescribe such massage for relief from feminine hysteria. And the doctor would even administer the first treatment while selling the massager to the female patient
@@curtisbarker9272 Even funnier, before the electric "massage" device, doctors would see female patients and treat them for hysteria by stimulating their clitoris by hand to provide "relief". Doctors would frequently get tired and worn out so when the electric devices were made, they were relieved.
Apparently one of the women who worked painting those Radium dials survived cancer-free due to the fact that she didn't lick her paint-brush because she disliked the taste! (stated on Qi)
I just got done with the book Radium Girls and it was a great read, thanks for the info!
Yes a local school performed the play. Fascinating story
wait, was licking paint brushes a thing? I mocked my aunt for ages for advising me not to do that...
@@elenabeatricemartinelli8426 yuuup, it was not just a thing, but a thing that used to be taught to every good school boy and girl.
And then people died.
@@elenabeatricemartinelli8426 It does make a nice pointy tip to paint finely with (I use a rag) & it's the main reason that paints for children/students are required to be non-toxic!
16:34 "This is an early 'massage machine"
Suzannah: 😏
Nobody:
Edwardian people discovering electricity: But can I f*ck it?
It’s like a hitachi: it’s supposed to be for massages but people use it to beat their meat
Ya nasty ;p
@@milaylahire6318 nothings bloody changed there, all men have stuck it somewhere 'interesting'
>w>
It still blows my mind that ice was shipped in from the Arctic, the price of ice must have been so high on a hot summers day!
14:29 "Killed by electricity: A *shocking* accident occurred..."
What a punster.
YEAH i noticed that too. For the time that was great copywriting
I noticed it three!
*someone dies*
Edwardian news people: 👏😂
The historian who talks about the grim & bleak nature of each of the invention had me in fits of giggles. He seems so passionate about the word 'lethal' and casually smiles on about horrendous deaths. XD
I would be anticipating his appearance each time, lol.
He's in other videos too, and I noticed he seems to enjoy saying things like: and there would be no escape or they would die horrible deaths! I also noticed that his upper and lower teeth are pointy, like a cat person would have! lol!
@@nikkicat254 Crown shapes to look like vampire fans and mounted to the IT is a cultural norm in the Vampire groups.
Jennifer Jones what are vampire fans
Aren't we all fascinated by the various, gruesome deaths of the past? After all the most popular videos on this channels have death in their titles. He is just more honest about it :D
Sorry, I was trying to watch some adverts but they kept being interrupted by a history program.
have u ever heard of Adblocks in 2020?
its only a matter of time until YT becomes daytime tv standard and so unwatchable.
@@andreic.3204 you can't adblock the app.
@@portaccio use browser on phone :)
@@portaccio not on iOS anyway, Android has a modified version called Vanced.
I chain watch these just to hear Nathan Goss say “It was lethal!” with a twinkle in his eye😂
Edwardian and Victorian people : "why is everything around me exploding"
Lol right.
Cocaine should solve the issue
They never thought that. They were eager to embrace the new technology of the times....and they did.
No wonder they all did opium.
*CREEPER*
aww man
Jesus fuck we really took a steep hill in terms of science, couple thousand years of wood working and suddenly we're on the moon
@afreen because I'm not too much bothered by the words and I have the freedom of speech
@@thecheezybleezy7036 this is off topic but your dog is adorbs
@afreen not everyone is religious
@@acsbunny I appreciate it, it was my friends dog but he had it him put down because of cancer complications, his name was bear
Just imagine and we lead to believe that they made to moon on the first try... moon landing Kinda sounding pretty much like bull to me after watching this documentary...
Can Absolute History and Dr. Lipscomb PLEASE do more of the Hidden Killers series? I’ve seen them all at least twice. They’re just that interesting and bizarre to me. I need more lol
Same🙌🏻🤣
Yeah, I love them, but IDK what more they can talk about.
Same!!!! My favorites!
A hidden killer: your posts on ridiculous CZcams videos! 😁
Right!!! I love them
was a apprentice electrician in the late 1940s many of these Edwardian relics were still in use, fire irons were in almost every house , most cottages in mill towns had gas. Electricity was generated locally and was later Nationalised. Wiring then was gradually converting from lead covered to a rubber covering, Cottages were wired (Subsidised) with one 15 amp socket, and two light circuits one upstairs and one down. gas was retained for many years by tenants who could not afford extra lighting points.
wow!
Really cool info, thanks for sharing!
You should make a channel to share your stories!
I'm a modern electrician and it's crazy seeing paper covered knob and tube wiring in really old houses, along with asbestos tiles all over the basements. I got hit with a hot line with paper insulation on it in an attic, that stuff will light you up bad. No grounds at all, 5 fuse boxes, no proper meter socket at all just a 60 amp disconnect running an entire house, garage and rv. Place could've been a museum lol it even was built from the wood they cut down, true 2 inch by 4 inch walls lined in boards, all hardwood. Hardest rewire ever
We still use gas, at least for cooking, in our home (probably majority of people in our country).
Asbestos-lined water tank and lead pipes....the Edwardians really had it bad, didn't they?
Though not as bad as those before them- women's crinolines used to catch on fire if they walked too close to an open flame,which was all too frequent in Victorian times, and corsets with hoop skirts trapped women in their burning clothes and even just suffocated them when a strong gust forced the skirt to invert like a ruined umbrella, or even attacked them when they tried to walk over stiles or sometimes down steep stairs
jan rees you’re right about the skirts catching on fire, though that was really only a problem for working-class women as they would be the ones working close to fires. And they were a general fire hazard, but it wasn’t very common to get ‘trapped’ in your burning clothes, at least not any more that it is today. The rest of what you’ve said, however, is false. The crinoline could not invert like an umbrella and suffocate anyone because it was made out of progressively larger lightweight steel hoops that were only attached to each other by fabric. Crinolines were actually very flexible and they were fully collapsible.
Asbestos was still being used in building public housing and insulation of water tanks and furnaces in 1960 and 70s
The asbestos "lining" of the early water heaters was used as insulation, it would not normally see contact with water unless the inner jacket cracked or rusted through. That they were fueled by gasoline, kerosene or gas using an open flame, in the kitchen was usually a larger hazard.
There are still many cities using lead or leaded steel water supply lines. They depend on the lead oxide that forms on the inside of the pipe to keep people from being poisoned. This is a great deal of the issues found in the City of Flint's water system. A change in the Ph of the water supplied to the system removed the oxide, allowing free lead into the water.
In 100 year they talk abouth our stupidity
these hijinks make me realize how we ended up with labels on hairdryers warning not to bring it into the bathtub
They just put it there so they cannot get sued.
And yet, even TODAY women are electrocuted doing their hair in the tub! Crazy!
Or "For external use only". Wait, so that would mean that ... Oh no !!! LOL 😄🤣😄🤣
@@bnk091182 Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
@@AL-jb1mh - And then having the audacity - well, in this case, that person probably doesn't even know what "audacity" means - to blame President Trump for it! How stupid can one person (and those who agree with where the blame was placed) be?
I recall how, in the 1950s, my mother still used an electric iron plugged into a bayonet light fitting in the ceiling. I also remember how, always naive about risk, she heard a loose screw rattling inside her Hoover steam iron. She grabbed a table knife to push it out-but the iron was still 'on'. _There was almighty bang!_ The 'Ivorine' handle insulated her from the current, but much of the blade had melted like a welding rod. Domestic fuses were notoriously insensitive, unlike the super-sensitive RCDs that protect us in our homes today.
I also remember people used to get tired of those fuses blowing, so they would circumvent the safety by placing a copper penny where the fuse goes.
Your poor mom! Ivorine to the rescue. That's a really scary story.
@@localgirl33 Yes, it was a very narrow squeak (to use that ancient term), but we all hang to life by a thread at times, don't we? Happily, she survived for another forty years...
I remember my Aunt plugging in her electric iron into an adapter in a pendent in the ceiling.
Early 1900s: Had lack of fundamental understanding of electricity. Produced electric tablecloths.
Today: Electric blankets
aewtx I guess that in some respects not much has changed since then lol
I remember when electric blankets were actually dangerous back in the 90's. I assume the technology has improved nowadays since I haven yet to hear about the dangers of them now.
@@lainiwakura1776 I was using them back in the 70's!
I'm lying on mine watching this...
I got one from my uncle for Christmas in 2007, and I was so scared about getting electrocuted or burned alive that I never used it. I still have no idea how people feel comfortable washing those things on the washer and dryer.
I LOVE Dr. Kate Williams. Her mannerisms when she explains things makes me feel like she is spilling some tea. 😂😂😂
I always get excited when shes on screen! You can tell shes so passionate about the subjects and just makes everything so interesting.
Sexiest voice on the series. I could listen her for some time tbh
Oh trust me, us Americans have spilled a *LOT* of tea, a whole shipload!
@@Krompierre. I don't know man, I'd study king Edward's left nut my whole life if it meant Dr. Lipscomb would interview me about it.
I feel the opposite, she is too soft spoken to hear clearly and idk what accent that is, it sounds not fake but very.....stressed like she's putting on a fake voice
The electric tablecloth is the one I just can't understand why anyone thought that would be a good idea...."Hay Tim you know what this dining room could really use, no what? The possibility of random high voltage electric shocks.
😲😵
I think this show balances the professionalism of TV with the efficiency of CZcams very well. Top work .
its a BBC production
@@captainboggles shows how far they have come , no silly title screens being repeated every 5 minutes or recapings .
Cave Johnson: "Ah, the good old days when everything was made of asbestos."
Or Arsenic..........
LOL! very underappreciated comment! XD XD XD
@@prismstudios001 Still in wiring.
Everything still is....
Asbestos gets such a bad rep. It's an absolutely wonderful material, it just happens it's incredibly harmful to your health.
sad part is that nothing's really changed and death for profit is still just as prevalent just hidden elsewhere. eg. sackler family,monsato etc
And most prevalent with conservatives IMO.
It's crazy how dangerous they knew asbestos is, but kept using it. I remember schools shutting down in the 80's to remove it.
I was a Chicago teen in the 80's, I recall the danger.
I lived in an old building (around 140 years old now) that still had electrical wires wrapped in silk. They were no longer being used of course due to how dangerous and flammable they were, but it was still interesting to see.
I've seen knob and tube wiring in an early Edwardian mansion when I was a kid.
Am I the only one who's troubled by that dude's maniacal smile when he says "absolutely lethal"?
19:20 look at his eyes. even thou he smiles you see compassion right after.
25:00 right after the smile is compassion
I can survive university. I'm Rachel! Llr
He seems like someone who’s definitely turn out to be the killer in an Agatha Christie book.
Fegelein, I think someone is or was very upset with you.. they kept yelling your name.
Oh THAT massage machine! :D
Now they safely charge on laptops....lol😏
I worked in a chemical works that made Azo dyes and needed dry ice for the process. This was made using ammonia as a refridgerant but the machine would often go wrong and we had to evacuate. Luckily there was a fire station opposite. After one such episode, were I can remember rushing downstairs through clouds of ammonia holding my breath, we got back in the lab later to find our cold coffees were ph 14!
😯😵😵😰😱
Ah yes. The period where people expires faster than their perishable foods
The male historian seems a little too happy each time he talks about ppl getting electrocuted...
Happy someone else noticed that
"A CHILD could touch the live wires and instantly die" he said with a shit eating grin
Lol, I had to hold back laughter every time he appeared.
Oh dear...
And at 36:47 ‘’your blood could pool on your heart! 😃’’
Year ago we asked our grandmother, who was born in the early 1880s , what the greatest invention of her lifetime was. She said: Electricity. She used to tell stories of the the lamp lighter, gaslight, candles and lanterns.
Is she the oldest living Human on earth?
Fucking Lie
selin tombas co Only half the U.S. homes in 1925 had electric power. Like most tech-it came to the less fortunate last. My great grandmother didn’t have electricity for a long time and told us youngins’ about those days. Don’t be ignorant.
So she is 120 yera old eh?
dannabats You realize people can tell stories and then die right? Where in the actual fuck are these retarded comments coming from?
@@dannabats Sounds like it. I spilled wine on my keyboard and the "s" does not always work. Supposed to read Years ago.
I think the Radium Girls deaths are the most horrific deaths I’ve ever heard of
So horrific I wouldn’t even wish them on their bosses (who elevated CYA into the exosphere). The first time I read Kate Moore’s book, I think I erupted in gut-clutching sobs at least 4 times.
I remember decades ago hearing about “radiation poisoning” and thinking “leukemia”…. after learning of THIS story it seems like the deaths from cancer were the most merciful. Well maybe not the one with a two-football sized tumor in her vag… and that huge sarcoma showed in that one photo here… but even those seemed an easier compared to some 😭. I’ve seen/heard more podcasts, CZcams videos, etc than I can count… truly nothing prepared me for the horror I would feel while reading the book. I think of how agonizing a single tooth abscess or even a sinus infection is…. I was a trauma nurse for years and have seen horrible things that can happen to faces…. I can’t begin to get my head around what some of THESE girls (yes, girls… many were teenagers) endured.
It's very upsetting
The stories of the hat pins being used as a weapon of defense is perfectly true! My great-great-grandmother used one for precisely that purpose one winter evening on her way home from the linen factory.😆
My great aunt was a NY hatter&Millie had a Giant stuffed pin cushion shoe with at least 8near foot long hat pins with fake 'jeweled' tops-I love the&still use her mil needles to repair-must be 5in of hard steel
CZcams: how many ads can we put on your video?
Absolute history: just f me up.
Almost always youtube puts ads on videos automatically, that's why in some videos there's like 7 ads in the beginning and just a few on the rest of the video
yt doesn't even ask. Authors just push "monetize" button and yt puts as many ads as possible depending on the length of the video. Unfortunately it's the only way to get some revenue apart yt premium users which aren't so common I suppose
@@ShitHappensRLY i would suggest adblock.. no ads here ;)
@@ShitHappensRLY There are some with one or two ads, others have serveral in and after.. tubers sure have a choice, if they want no ads, only in beginning, in middle and also signle or dual ads in middle
**Laughs in AdBlock**
"And this is for massage?"
"Ostensibly from massage, it was often used for more intimate sorts of purposes as well"
"OH *thats* what this is ...... right "
Lmfao
I believe this was prescribed by your doctor for "hysteria"! I think that's hysterical!
"Massage" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
that was so awkward tho
That is way s*x toys are more accepted for women than those for men.
@Gayle Elizabeth what ?
2:13 we still have that kind of sewing machine from Singer and it still works.
Imagine university students who had Suzannah Lipscomb as a history professor for anything on British history. It would be the highest enrolled course on campus.
The radium girls graves in New Jersey still emit radiation. It was used also in bottled water, sold as a "health benefit" and you can see the advertisements in the newspapers from the 1920s.
Theirs are radioactive... and those of the men who suppressed the truth are hopefully extremely hot...
Yep. The "ghost girls" still glowing today.
sure, but how are WE any better with the 5G coming, never mind all the cell/micro radiation the last 30 years?
ITS FUNNY TO LOOK BACK IN TIME they thought they living in modern technology days today we say how silly can you be
@@donalddrysdale246 Well, you're talking about different types of radiation that have different effects on the cells in our bodies. Radiation from decay consists of alpha, beta, and gamma rays. The alpha and beta rays are actually heavier particles that can easily destroy tissue, which is why they are handy in destroying cancerous tissue. Gamma rays are composed of photons, so they are electromagnetic radiation, like 5g and microwaves. Now, EM radiation can definitely be harmful to the body, as it is with gamma rays, but that mostly depends on the wavelength, because with photons, the wavelength is inversely proportional to the energy. Our cells can tolerate most low energy, longer wavelength EM radiation, like visible light, or radio waves, except for infrared, because in the infrared range, photons have just the right amount of energy to be easily absorbed by other particles to drive them up to higher energy levels (heating them up). As you get to the shorter, high energy wavelengths past visible light, then you get to the really dangerous stuff, like ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays, etc. Still, even the less harmful wavelengths of EM radiation can do damage if you can concentrate the radiation intensely enough, for example, with a visible light laser, or a microwave oven. Conversely, we can tolerate the higher energy radiation better if it is less concentrated. So the UV radiation from the sun is more tolerable in the morning or evening than midday, because it is being scattered more by passing through a greater distance of atmosphere before it reaches us.
Basically, with the cell phone and microwave radiation, it is pervasive, but it is both lower energy and unconcentrated, since it is being emitted from all different directions and the larger emitters are probably at a greater distance from you. Might still be an issue if you have a giant cell tower outside your living room window, though, time will tell I guess.
i clicked this thinking it would be your usual youtube top ten list but i ended up getting quite an in depth education. thanks! really fascinating stuff
I know! Feel like I'm watching the BBC
cant imagine seeing a lady with a whole ass bird on her head and being like “hey hot stuff, wanna ditch this shabby old party and go have some fun?”
are you saying you would like to take a gander under the dress
You know how pissed I'd be if some dude wanted to hang out under my skirt with his goose?! I mean a guinea hen or pheasant perhaps would be fine but, geese are the literal devil. I wouldn't have it
It's amazing how humanity didn't kill itself off 😂
I’m still amazed at that as well 🤣
There's still time.
I think we are, we just have *that* much collective self preservation to overcome anihilation XD
Oh we’re working on it, unfortunately.
yet…
My guy in the plaid shirt seems to be feeling the weight of everything he's relaying in such a deep way its a whole mood.
Its a whole mood? What does that mean?
He means.... (Whispering in a bad English accent) It's positively lethal.
I wonder if he's yet recovered from the production of this piece. He really seemed to feel as if he should have warned all thise people that they were putting themselves in danger
@@lassaut6794 Similarly to how the phrase sounds, it can range from meaning "I agree with this" to "this is relatable".
Google is your friend for stuff like this; highlight the word, right click, and click "search google for".
@@fieldsobrietytest4462 oh I'm aware of google search. I ask on this thread to get the kids that use this sort of slangs version of it. I usually don't get a coherent response. Especially "vibe check" or "issa vibe". Wtf is that?
the the blond guy with the vampire teeth smiling creepily while describing horrible deaths in a calm pleasant tone of voice lmaooo wtf
Saw that part as soon as I read this and fully agree its a disturbing countenance for such a morose story
Sounds like my type of guy, I'm like that too
Absolutely LETHAL.
*smiles devilishly*
Death induced in the most horrific way imaginable.
*grins with immense pleasure*
Absolutely no chance for survival. These gases and powders are the most dangerous cancer inducing substances with the added chance of going blind and mad in the process - death is agonizing.
*smiles with delight*
I would not like to tell him my ggrandmother died by vacuum sweeper. No one else was home & the kids came home from school to find her with her new birthday present, (electric sweeper ) she had somehow electrocuted herself.
@@ChubbyTeletubby this comment made me laugh thank u random stranger
I cant wait for them to make one about the *dangers of cell phones* in 2020
*boomer moment*
Maybe not cell phones, but certainly the Samsung smart phones that had burnt people's faces due to how faulty they were
Dr. Kate Williams really does have a good storytelling voice and style. I'm telling you, if you wanted someone to tell you campfire stories really well, I think she'd be a shoe-in.
My grandmother who was born in 1927 always referred to radiation as radium. I eventually realized why
@MichaelKingsfordGray was that really necessary? on a year old comment? you have a lot of hate in your heart
49:49 radium
Honey, We Do NOT want you TO Touch The Westinghouse Electric TOASTER! Your Mommy or Daddy will take the risk of Touching the Westinghouse Electric Toaster every morning at Breakfast!
Good grief Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is killing it in that red dress.
AwfulMusik I know, right?! She looks slamming!!!
CupKate Sweets Beauty and brains.
I know right? She's so pretty omg
Ang Bon well aren't you an angry little baby? All wound up are we?
She is ungodly gorgeous. I looked it up, and she is 40. How??
Makeup in 1900: here put some heavy metals on yourself
Makeup in 2000: Turns out just regular dirt works and isn't poisonous.
Ehhh, there's still toxic crap in modern makeup. The documentary "America the Beautiful" goes over it.
Wow really makes you think what killers we might be missing today
Distraction by mobile phones , 🤔 maybe?
@@erikincph yes I agree. Chronic sleep deprivation maybe
Sugar and salt probably
Vaccines
@@Darthmaul756 I suggest you study a bit regarding the outcome of the biggest vaccination programs since the first vaccination was invented...
Millennial death: he ignored the warning label.
Edwardian death: he bought a refrigerator
Millennial death: He ate a tide pod.
@@Taricus Drives into a Lake because GPS said turn here.
@@JENDALL714 ROFL 🤣
@@JENDALL714 Years ago I read of a retired couple that drove into a canal blindly following GPS.
Millennial death: hit by car, stepping off the curb without looking, engrossed in his phone.
these "deadly historical home" videos are so interesting! I really hope you do more, my favorite so far is the victorian home.
The lady with the necklace who spoke about the pins nailed it. She stole the show :D
This presenter is always so beautiful & sophisticated ❤️
She’s pretty and intelligent ❤️
I dig the gentleman who is apparently enthralled by the fact that plugging in an appliance in the Edwardian era could end up with you being instantly and forcefully ejected from your home by a gas explosion! I don't know if his delivery is intentional, but boy is it entertaining to watch! lol
Maybe in a near future we will watch a documentary on how dangerous it "was" to spray our food with pesticides
They will look back in horror, just as we look back in viewing this documentary with the horrific knowledge of these types of dangerous products used during the Edwardian period 😱
Yes every generation laughs at the ones before...except we are poisoning each other just the same!!
It'll probably be secondary to documentaries about how we polluted our atmosphere with irresponsible gas vehicles, choked the oceans with plastic, and gave everyone measles because we forgot vaccines work.
Or, there might be no documentaries because we'd all be dead.
But we are already aware of the dangers. The companies just choose to overlook it. Because, you know, money.
@@hqi1321 lol
In the 1970’s, there was a Marvel Comics villain called Asbestos Lady. She was one of the archenemies of The Human Torch, who she fought off with a gun that shot asbestos bullets, and protected herself from his flames with an asbestos-lined uniform. No surprise, she later died from mesothelioma.
I love how many women professionals this channel has
It's sad that more man have careers that women don't fit to work in
Me too! 😊
Face cream advertisment: _This magical product will stop your aging forever_
Me: Yes, yes it will, absolutely!
💀💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂
I've seen better results from facial muscle exercisers, e.g. "jawzercise". Anything that gets the blood flowing is much better than creams. Maybe a cream with hot peppers to stimulate blood flow ...
Immediate effect!
@MrSaemichlaus yes death has that tendency to stop aging permanently [full sarcasm here ] LOL! Cheers!
@@pvtrichter8816 czcams.com/video/t1TcDHrkQYg/video.html
I had to smile at the mention of using hat pins to defend your virtual. My grandmother was born in 1900, she told me about sitting in a movie theatre while holding your hat pin upright in your lap. Just in case the man sitting next to you attempted to get fresh with you.
ya, women still grab any blunt or sharp instrument they can.
Virtue,... It's called virtue.
@@balderii7340 But I love the conception of "defending your virtual-" -something or other.
As written, @Valerie Engle can certainly be said to be lacking virtue.
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 Then you only use it in the combination: virtual-this-or-that. As a noun it's "virtue".
@@balderii7340 I _know_ you use it in a structured combination.
That's why I wrote: "-something or other"
Then you for some weird reason tried to "correct" me and wrote: "-this-or-that"
Please explain the difference between:
1. "virtual something or other"
2. "virtual-this-or-that"
“What’s this!? ‘High Voltage’!? Well, I don’t need safety gloves, because I’m Homer Simpso-“ ⚡️ 💀
RIP Frank "Grimey" Grimes ✏️
A good time to be poor. The rich were the first to try things as they could afford. By the time things were worked out, then the poor might be able to afford.
Never thought of it that way.
The poor were the ones working in the asbestos factories and painting the radium clocks
definitely not a good time to be poor lmao
There's never been a good time to be poor
The rich brought the poison while the poor unknowingly made it.
When my dad was a young man, he had many jobs in the small Kansas town he lived in. He told me the story about repairing an elderly women's electrical ceiling socket in her dinning room. The socket was above her prized dinning table and she demanded dad place a bowel under the socket so that the "juice" that came from the outlet would not damage her table. Funny to my dad, but a real concern to the old women.
it's basically a juice. did you know cheese is a kind of meat
@MichaelKingsfordGray oh! you're a troll, now it all makes sense!
Andrew Aronson A tasty yellow beef
I have been an electrician for many years.. I remember reading about all this stuff in school.. Some of the problem is you can't see electricity and years ago they lined boiler rooms in military barracks with asbestos. Guess where the electrical panels were? I wouldn't do a job if there was asbestos in the area..
No, the hair was NOT "covered with asbestos" during early permanent waving! The hair was wound onto rods, and each rod was wrapped with a foil-backed fabric pad soaked in perming solution, then clamped with a heating clip, connected to a "chandelier" of electric wires.
The danger was that, if the solution in the pad dried up too quickly, the hair could start to smoulder. To cool it, the hairdresser would pour water onto it, which would, of course, often give the client a bit of an electric shock.
Regarding asbestos. It was only completely banned in my country (Canada) in 2018. Unbelievable. Doesn’t give me much hope for reducing carbon emissions.
Paul M What?! WoW
Amazing Supergirl Yep! And Canada is the first in North America to completely ban it. Canada has some of the largest asbestos mines in the world so lobbyists delayed a complete ban by decades.
Its banned from being used but don't you guys still export it?
Another reason why I love Canada
@@nurrakugy5126 Canada is one of the two biggest asbestos exporters in the world
I love how that bearded bald guy delivers terrible, dangerous ordeal for the Edwardian with such a happy face.
your the third person here that's mentioned that---people need to stop being so naïve about who someone might be.
He wasn't bald.
36:50 Whys this guy always smiling when talking about death or serious illness? I love him
I still had gas lights in my bedroom in Watford (a BIG town in Hertfordshire, England) as late as 1960!
16:45 Her realization of what she was holding along with the look on her face is priceless
If you look a few seconds before that - you can see a distinct thinly veiled smirk on her face. She knew right away.
They made a movie about that (Hysteria).
Oh, thats what its for, ya right. lol
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That was the Prince Albert clitoris stimulator. I couldn`t get it away from my g/f unless I had an erection...women, lol!
Thanks for repackaging these documentaries for us. They're very well made and interesting.
7:32 What is that weird feeling I get when Nathan Goss speaks ? It is like he is about to cry any second.
In Camberley the local Electricity Company persuaded the owners of houses in my parents street to convert from gas lighting to electric lighting, by offering "free" installation in exchange for a weekly payment, When we moved into our house in 1957, the previous owner's had paid for their own installation, but some house owners were still paying this charge on their electricity bills. The gas lighting points were still visible in the rooms, where the pipe work had been plugged off. Also street lighting was gas powered and the local council employed gas lighters to turn on the street lights. In fact the street light was placed on the road and not moved on to the footpath until all electric street lights were installed.
The electric cables were two core with a lead sheath with the sheath acting as the earth wire and gas pipes were made of a lead composite. My parent's had the house rewired with three core plastic sheath wiring.
_"Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"_
- Morpheus, 1999
No the matrix was in 1999 real life was in 2699
@@cr-jj1nrWhile here in Matrix, I like to use context appropriate time stamps set by the mainframe.
Genius comment. I was kind of doing the same thing as Neo. Fortunately the woman in the red dress was talking but not that old man Fishburne so I got the gist of it.
She is fun to look at
That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw that full figure in that dress!
Why do all of the people she interviews whisper like they are talking about some horrific, taboo secret? That one guy sounds like he's on the verge of tears..
If I may, that is a common conversing expression of enthusiasm, found widely in the UK, especially when conversing in regards to historical topics.
@@tesityr6722 Thanks for explaining it. :) I can respect it a lot more knowing it's not just a crappy directing choice lol.
They are sad about what has happened to their once great country. lol
Turn up your volume!
Did you miss the part where millions of people die needlessly from anything and everything? Using the kitchen was like 'Nam.
The guy in the plaid shirt (edit: Nathan Goss) is so sick of everyone’s shit I love it 😂😂😂
in 1983 i started to work in the containerglass industry. the containers were very hot during the production process so were the molds and other equipment of the machines.
the gloves we were using at the time to protect us from the heat were from asbestos, and i think that was about the time that was changed to other materials a few years later.
quite scarry when you hear now when it was first discovered how dangerous that stuff is
for those who are interested, I would highly recommend the book "Radium Girls"; it's a very gripping book that details the integration and deadly nature of Radium
Lick paint, lick paint. Watch
1924...they KNEW the dangers of Asbestos. YET...my dad was exposed during the 1950s-1960s in the US!!😡😡 He died in 2005 from mesothelioma cancer. 😞😞 He was MAINLY exposed helping building ships & submarines for the US military, working at a NASA engine testing center & chemical plants. The makers of the products he & those around him used KNEW IT WAS DANGEROUS!! But gave NO WARNINGS! Ugh...pisses me off so much. I knew that they had known...I didn’t realize it was since the 1920s though. 🤬🤬🤬
Rogue Wolf
Sorry for you loss, my friend. It is truly unforgivable - the greed of man.
I’m so sorry for your loss... Their greed and their lies were despicable! I’m sure karma got them.
sorry for your loss
also, the sad thing is that in my country asbestos still isn't banned and people are exposed to it, especially those who works directly with it
and why people should have these diseases or even die ? it's just for simple reason, that asbestos is cheaper than its analogues, thus companies don't want to loose their profits
@Wilhelm Foamborn
Besides saving money, the intention is to actually assist in depopulation.
No companies were required to warn about any ingredients, including food.
The problem was that there weren't any codes or regulations yet. Now every city publishes an electrical code, and there are industry-wide standards.
The historian Madeleine at 40:06 has a really awesome and quirky style!
To be fair, the curling wand probably wasn't all that terribly different from the 450-degree electric curling wands we use today.
for thick hair you shouldn't go past 300 degrees and most curling irons won't go past 400. If you are curling ur hair at 450, you're going to burn it off or really damage it. U r right tho, they still get ridiculously hot.
I think that kind of temperature would certainly burn off hair if you use materials like sterling silver. However, we use ceramic or variety of titanium materials in curling/straightening irons. Those hold and distribute heat evenly, which makes it quite hard to burn off hair in chunks like it did with Edwardian silver curling irons. On top of that, we have different kinds of coatings and insulation within a hair iron that causes little to no hair breakage. Today's hair irons are far less damaging and much safer than the ones they used back then even at their highest temperature settings
@@ggggia perfect comment! I'm a stylist are you as well?
@@leslieenoch No, I just google shit a lot. 😄
@@ggggia 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It would be cool to see a video with a comparison of electrical sockets in the UK vs. USA. The UK sockets are much better designed for safety - each one has a switch, and they’re recessed so a loose plug doesn’t become a shock hazard. There’s also a fuse inside each plug. It goes beyond that - in bathrooms light switches are all suspended and non-conductive from the ceiling. I’d be curious to see statistics on accidental home electrocutions in the USA vs. UK.
Asbestos was also used on ironing boards, the part where the iron would sit when hot and not being used. This was in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. I remember my mother having such an ironing board. After a lot of wear and wet from steam irons, it started to break up. Makes me wonder if this is why she died of lung cancer. We will never know.
That rather makes it sound like Victoria was holding them back. Rude.
Scary asbestos: We used to pat on the heating pipes at school to see the "smoke" come out. 🤢
I live on the Caribbean and I wonder if that material was ever used. I've never heard of asbesto here just in the US and UK must of the times.
How old are you now to know how long you survived?
Does Caribbean region need any heating?
Unless this was a very long time ago you might still die, RIP.
@@AngelaMerici12 All the old (grey) roof tiles or wall tiles and heatshielding sheets on walls etc. are asbestos. You sure have it there, it's just not used same way as here up north. As they mentioned, it is wonderful material because you can use it in so many ways. They used it even on floortiles and mortars... When i visited Haiti and Cuba, it were all over the place.
There is a lesson in asbestos, no matter how good it is, there is a catch, especially if it is a "miracle".
DarkSideGryphon
It is still massively here in America. Millions upon millions of buildings and homes still have “popcorn ceilings,” which are made with asbestos, including my apartment and my cousins’ home. My parents had the ceiling removed off of our family home sometime in the 90s or early 2000s. The world trade center was also chosen to be the mark of destruction because it proved to be much too costly to remove all the asbestos.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 yeah, but removing it can be way more dangerous than leaving it alone.
@@yourinnerlawyer4035
Only bad when airborne.
@@waterandafter umm yeah, that's what I said.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Yeah, my home had popcorn ceilings that we just got rid of. Who the actual fuck though popcorn ceilings looked good? Whoever they were someone should've beaten them over the head with a stick.
Literally had to pause the video at the bit about radium condoms. Don't get me wrong, it's so tragic but of COURSE people put this mystery element in condoms, because heehoo glow-in-the-dark peepee.
Those things probably also were extra good for preventing pregnancy due to radiation near ballsack
@@oktopussy9628 yeetus yeetus fetus deletus
"Heehoo glow-in-the-dark peepee"
I'm dying
Y'all are hilarious !! And did you see the name of the condom? " Nutex" 😂😂😂😂
DIY condom
*looks at glitter and hotgule with evil intent*
I never connected the dots that the Edwardian era is the same time period as what I was taught to call The Turn of the Century (1890’s to 1910’s)
It's 1901 to 1910
no, and there is so much dot connecting to do with many things that have led up to the present, and one of them is how the elite have been manipulating the public for centuries.
I'm loving this channel. Just found it last week and can't keep away from it.