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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 radio-active 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 forbears' enthusiasm for untried and untested products.
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People were so dumb back then.
-Takes a huge drag off a vape pen and chugs an energy drink
With WiFi and 5g flowing through us too!
@@larryjohnny shut up anti vaxer
Same!!😂
Hahaha way to deliver a point there man. :-)
People in the past weren't dumb they just didn't have the knowledge we have now. Would you call the ancient Greeks dumb? They invented geometry and calculus. That's something a lot of people don't get today.
I grew up in a big Edwardian home built in 1906. It had cloth-covered wire electricity, asbestos paint, and all sorts of harmful things that my father had to have removed at great expense. But it was a beautiful house with lavish mohogany woodwork, parquet floors and huge bedrooms for five children, parents, and a suite for my grandmother. The house still exists in all its glory, with another family living there. I miss my childhood home. But it was full of Edwardian dangers.
You still in the house but miss the danger?
I miss my childhood home too
@@eddyvluggen No you illiterate mong, he misses the house, not the dangers
I Saw an video on the court case trying to get compensation for the Radium Girls, and it chilled me how the defending company kept delaying actions going keeping things out of court till they had all died.
It's never about making the people of the past look dumb, it's about simply reflecting on mistakes that were made.
I like the way you phrased that
Without their mistakes we couldn't be so much safer now..
My favorite person she consults is the Welsh guy who always seems so delighted by dangerous stuff and gruesome deaths. He'd probably be a legitimately fun person to have a drink with.
Absolutely lethal..... Best accent ever! 😁
Hahahaha! Right?! You just know he loves this stuff. But then again, we're all watching it so we must be interested! Hahaha!!!
I thought the same. He ends every sad sentence with a gleeful smile.
He always has this little smile on his face. Love it! 😂
I thought he was Scottish, but I agree he sounds delighted when he says "absolutely lethal".
A hundred years from now someone is going to make a documentary like this about the early 2000s and we're all going to look like a bunch of imbeciles too.
Pharmaceuticals
And then there will be a person making a documentary about them and so on
@Aqua Netta I have a serious mental illness. Without meds I probably would've killed myself years ago. So all the Big Pharma bashers, please shut the f*ck up!
Aqua Netta it’s not the meds sweets. It’s the twisted doctors pushing them. People need medicine. If it never came about then we would have all perished from some plague.
@@ItwasaboutpotatoesRight on, man! Or woman?
I retired as a Chartered Electrical Engineer recently after spending 45 years in the power industry dealing with voltages up to 400,000 Volts. It still surprises me just how ignorant of the dangers of electricity most people still are😡 . If you aren’t qualified to deal with electricity DONT mess with it!
Even some electricians! One I spoke to once wasn't aware that an RCD/Earth leakage breaker (I forget exactly what they call them in the UK and USA) isn't going to trip if the current doesn't have a route to ground i.e. if you happen to have a phase conductor and neutral both touching you simultaneously while you're insulated from ground.
But then some people are like that - they know only what they're specifically told, with no real inquisitory instinct to extend their knowledge beyond that.
@juan abee You seem a little upset with EEs. The fact is that there is more to it than just not being grounded. HV will jump, and have you ever heard of arc flash? And while Tesla and Westinghouse managed to not smoke themselves, plenty of others have. Yes, just about anyone can reset a breaker. The trick is, figuring out what breaker to use to detect a fault, at the end of 10 miles of power line.
@juan abee Amperage? I think you meant current. The unit of current is the ampere.
@juan abee Amperage does not exist. Amperes are the official SI unit of current. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that, just an electrical engineer. You’re right in that a small current is all that’s needed to be fatal, around 20ma will do it in the right (wrong) circumstances.
You are absolutely correct. I was a Safety Guy at a Nuclear Electric Generation Station. There can be extremely nasty repercussions. Hence the reason for appropriate procedure and procedure adherence.
I lived in an old house for quite some time. It was not renovated since I guess before the second WW, and I didn't mind. But after watching this video, I noticed green colour under three layers of paint, I knew some electrical wires were still wrapped in cloth ( I never used those), and I started wondering about asbestos. There was a gas leakage but the landlord never reacted to my complaints. When a repairman came to fix the museal gas stove, he could smell the gas, too, he told me I' m probably just still alive because the windows were so drafty. So I moved out of that beloved house, and learnt the next tennant that moved in had died 6 months later...
My great-grandmother (b.1860, d. 1963) thought that the greatest invention of her lifetime was not the car, nor airplane, nor electricity nor refrigeration, but rather the window screen.
Gotta keep those bugs out
That totally makes sense, and seems like something my great grandmother would've said, having lived in a boxcar for a house, crossed the prairies in a covered wagon, and survived the Dust Bowl. Her descriptions of the accidental mixing of all the dust with women's makeup at the time were hilarious!
That’s amazing! I used to work at a water ice place that didn’t have the luxury of window screens. Flies and other bugs kept coming in and it was disgusting. You’d think something invented so long ago would be utilized everywhere 🤦🏻♀️
To me, this makes sense because Malaria is one of the most prolific killers ever, around the world! I wonder what happened to the rate of malaria as the window screen became more and more available around the world. That would be an interesting study.
Your great-grandmother lived over a hundred years? That's amazing. I'd agree with her about the screens. I inherited the "no-bugs-in-the-house gene" from my father.
Two words...
Absolutely. Lethal.
Sounds like a band name.
Brilliant
I can only imagine some 50~100 years from now a similar situation with them looking at Li-Ion batteries, vapes and all kinds of medical processes and medications just wondering how we even survived this era.
Yeah...
""They injected WHAT to prevent disease? Cray cray"
I ask myself the same question on a weekly basis in the present. AI will have the same impact today as at the turn of the 20th century.
Society uplifted by technology too quickly not yet regulated by governments.
Humanity doesn’t handle great leaps forward very well.
As an electrician I can tell you that this video gives me genuine pain.
Are you saying you don't like exposed wires?
Not as much pain as the original users
Electrician, I'm involved in an ongoing feud with a relative who insists on using a double male end extension cord to connect outlets in different rooms at his house, claiming one is a "weak circuit." Absolutely kills me.
I was a building inspector in Philadelphia, PA, New York City and Camden, NJ. I did a lot of inspections through a lot of Old Schools, Hospitals and Factories and Shipyards. Some of the electrical wiring and equipment I came across looked straight out of Dr. Frankenstein's Lab. A lot of still worked. I wouldn't be surprised if some of it actually didn't have Edison's or Tesla's fingerprints on it. 😂
@@acliclas138 We electricians call them suicide cords and they're called that not because people have use them to hang themselves. Stay safe
Hidden killers of the ancient roman home: cloaked enemies, tigers hiding under gladiator floors, mt. vesuvius, asbestos
The Ides of March et tu Brute?!!! Fellow Senators...
lead in the wine
Are you sure there were tigers?Lions, sure, but tigers?Tigers are not native to Africa.Once upon a time though, there were lions in Greece.
nice.
And led plates and cutlery
Me: HOW DID ANYONE SURVIVE THE PAST!?
Also me: Ooooo, glowing clocks!
Omg these are my thoughts ALL THE TIME. Life in past seems to be nothing but deadly!!
I mean really..... Riding in cars with no seat belts or car seats. Riding bicycles with no helmet. Drinking from garden hoses. Actually using cloth diapers that had to be cleaned and washed...... I'm surprised the human species hasn't gone extinct already. Of course this alarming and mounting wide spread increase in general stupidity (marked by liberal egalitarianism) within the species will no doubt contribute greatly to our ultimate demise.
For me I like learning how people live back then what they do, and how they live
@@CutieRingoJoy very same for me...
I have watches from 1970s, made in USSR, that have radioactive luminicent clock face. It was common practice in Eastern Bloc to do this.
Back in the 1980s my Mother commented that her sewing machine from 1938 sometimes went only intermittently so my brother had a look at it. The power cord was insulated with rubber covered with fabric (usual for pre-WW2). It turns out that the rubber had perished and that bare wires were exposed and could sometimes touch each other!
In my grandmother's house in the American south in the 1960s (I was a child) I once plugged in a fan that I found in a largely abandoned front room and got an explosion of sparks. It had that exact sort of wiring, and the rubber had largely disintegrated. I doubt the fan had been used for 20 years. (The large Victorian style house itself dated to the late 19th Century and had been wired in the 1920s or 1930s/)
I got a great shock from this exact kind of cord on an iron. I can still remember VIVIDLY the pain that ran up my arm and seemed to go right out the top of my head. I'm lucky it didn't hold me, as I was home alone.
As unbelieveable as some of these tales are, there's a recurring theme in all of them: - Where there's money to be made, health and safety takes a back seat.
We'd like to think with all of todays rules and regulations that we've moved on from that but there are many examples that prove otherwise. I can well imagine in 100 years time people being shocked and horrified at all the (now mostly synthetic) chemicals we expose ourselves to on a daily basis, and quite possibly all the EMF and radio waves too...?
They were ignorant of the dangers. Once they discovered them they were phased out. Doesn't really go along with your money over everything else idea.
@@joecoolioness6399 Did you watch the video? Take asbestos as one example: The harmful effects were first documented in 1898. It wasn't until the 1920s that any regulations were brought in to protect workers, and asbestos was still legal to use in buildings and vehicles until as recently as the 1970s. So yeah they phased that out pretty quick didn't they! lol Only took 72 years. Now tell me the reason for that wasn't anything to do with financial profits...
There's already been research done about the toxic effect of cell phone radiation, but that was quickly and quietly swept under the rug. The ingredients of energy drinks stress the kidneys and endocrine glands, but people still consume them. And of course, vaping is little safer than smoking actual tobacco, not to mention the deleterious effects of alcohol, which is still consumed in large amounts. So no, we're not a lot wiser than our ancestors.
I mean u have a point but back then generally only the person who created it knew it was dangerous, now things have to go thru multiple people's hands to get approved
@@ReaperPLUR In theory yes. But you'd be shocked how often money changes hands behind the scenes to get something approved as being safe without being put through the level of scrutiny it really should be. This is arguably more common today than it has ever been.
Tanning beds will definitely be one of our killers.
Yeah and I laid in one and stood in one way too many times. Ironic that from the late 60's we were told it was pretty to be sun tanned and ugly to be porcelain white... but historically we were encouraged to appear porcelain white and it makes me wonder if men even care or if this is just a money making racket women believe in...woman perpetuated against woman for the sake of the profit!
@@valfletcher9285 You are absolutely right. It continues to be marketed even though we now understand the side effects. I think men will see the beauty of women no matter what. The push for tanned skin is exactly what you said, just good marketing for sake of profit.
Erich Lawrence yeah I hate the idea of them
@@valfletcher9285 and at the same time telling people that they were "too dark". Society is never happy.
@@Udontkno7 we in asia have whitening creams and lotions. Sad really. Grass is greener on the other side.
Women were still employed painting radium clockfaces in the WW2 era! My GRANDMOTHER told me "THE GIRLS USED TO PAINT IT ON THEIR LIPS, & EYELIDS, and go in the ladies room with lights out, dancing & laughing about!" She didn't... but did develop trouble with her jaw/teeth later, despite rigorous care & regimen - never linked to radium though, in fact dentists blamed it on having had children (losing teeth, but not explaining the mandibular weakening) Never heard this linking radium to such until now. Surprised & saddened to learn they knew decades before she was employed thus, & subsequently known, though no one made the connection for her.
This makes me want to cry and I didn’t even know her. I’m so sorry.
There is a movie coming out on this! Its crazy that I read your comment literally 5 minutes after I watched the trailer for the movie. Its called Radium Girls.
Here is the trailer! I believe its based off a book.
czcams.com/video/7RxnIriKLRk/video.html
Sorry to hear that.
I remember seeing in a documentary that radium was used to illuminate dials in the Norton Bomb Sights.
Awful
Makes me wonder if stuff we have in our homes now will be discovered to be dangerous in the future...
The microwave to start!
Gyphosate
Imagine if its something simple though.....like watermelon or tofu.
Soy
Teflon
Way back in my childhood, I remember my parents had a clock with radium dials. I don't know what ever happened to it. Radium was used for a long time, the luminous dials of WW2 aircraft instruments were Radium powered.
Radioactive
I have a radium dial!!! I love it!! The poor radium girls :(
16:45 "oh THAT's what this is" really got me
My dear friend died from Mesothelioma, he was exposed to asbestos in the Royal Navy. It was used in the ships for pipe insulation and a bunch of other uses. RIP Bob GBNF.
Kevin P sorry to hear
It's mindboggling how many things asbestos was used for.
My father was a diesel mechanic and was exposed to asbestos in the breaks for many years. He also died from mesothelioma in 1993.
There was an episode of Father Brown with a similar story
In the UK many older homes still have asbestos in them.
What a hook...being taught History by the world's most beautiful historian. What a concept! I can't stop watching and I'm learning a side of history not taught at University.
I've always loved history, so, she's the cherry on top of the soda, for me.
imagine having a science teacher like that in school, id stick around for some extra curriculum everyday
She is one heck of a bombshell for Teacher or Historian, I'd purposely fail my test to get into remedial class with her.
My grade 10 English teacher was Ms Fahey. How anyone learned anything I don't know
It's funny. I'm old enough to remember my grandmother's electric iron which had a cloth wrapped cord, and Christmas lights that had a cloth wrapped cord and huge colored bulbs that got quite hot, lol.
Proverbs 31 Woman There was plastic underneath.
@@katana5562 Maybe rubber, as plastic didn't come around until later on...?
What year was that ?
I remember the Happy Holdiay giant bulbs.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Plastic has probably been around longer than you think. It's older than most people think.
“Line water tanks with asbestos, bring the water in through lead pipes...” sounds delicious Lol
Jaimie lead pipes are still used. I’ve lived in many older homes with lead plumbing and it’s safe untouched much like asbestos if you have it it’s safe just don’t dig into them. One my houses had lead pipes and massive amounts of asbestos insulation and pipe wrap. I’m still kicking decades later.
Grew up with lead paint as well. Eeeeeks. Didn’t die. But McDonald’s and cola gave me the diabetes that will kill me. Moral of the story McDonald’s is more dangerous than lead and asbestos. In the 70’s-90’s we were not warned of the danger of McDonald’s.
Lead pipes are widely used today but a brittle layer of other elements compounded keeps the water from touching the lead. If those chemicals aren’t added to the water flint Michigan happens... it takes years to rebuild that protective barrier.
Complements the flavour of arsenic in the desert
Actually lead water IS delicious as it's a pretty decent (although hazardous) sugar substitute.
This makes me glad my grandfather was very old fashioned. He was also very good at inventing his own energy sources and ways of doing plumbing.
It's really incredible that it took England until 1999 to finally ban asbestos. Not that England had a uniquely slow reaction; it took Germany also until the 90s, and it took the European Union even until 2005.
I’m in England and we’ve got a garage made of asbestos, it was built in the 80s i think, but the landlord won’t remove it as it’s too expensive an dangerous.
In the 80s I wanted to insulate my house's outside and made weather prove with asbestos cement shieldings. They were no more available - even we had a factory in our town.
Kind of makes you wonder if the computer i'm watching this on is killing me too..
Probably. Substances leeching out from the circuit boards and plastics, getting into the air you breathe, or onto your skin when you touch it. The light from the screen is burning your eyes, and makes you fall asleep much later than nature intended.
@@nrdesign1991 10 decades later: by the early of 21st century, millions and millions of people from elizabethian era were poisoned by their own mobile phone
@@davidtogi5878 I wouldnt doubt it.
Cell phones have radiation
Maybe not, but the cell phone might if the claim that they emit radiation is accurate.
The Welsh guys cracking me up.....he loves it doesn't he 😂
Sonnys Mummy UK yeah it’s not okay though.
He's in a lot of these. He's kind of annoying as he sounds like he's constantly terrified and on the verge of tears.
@@katnerd6712 "on the verge of tears" what the fck are you on about,he looks like hes about to burst out laughing every time he talks about the stupid things they used to do!!
@@katnerd6712 are you watching the same programme as the rest of us??!!
@@acidheadzzz I think they are refering to the absolutely lethal guy
I’m a gas engineer by trade and I’m under taking training to become electrically qualified at the moment. Edwardian early implementation and use of electricity could well have wiped us all out 😂
Bit over the top buddy
Sun lamps, shown at 15:54, lasted well into the twentieth century. When I was a small child in the early-1970s, my doctor had me lie under such a lamp to "cure" a persistent bronchial condition. 🙄 It did not help. It was still the same mindset discussed in the video.
I remember the dermatologist using a UV lamp to treat my acne along with antibiotics and forbiding me to eat chocolate.
I used one of those once and it made my eyes crust over and I thought I was going blind.
"They truely beleived that by ingesting radium, the body would absorbe this energy."
Well, um... they were right 😬
I think they understood it quite well lol.
Indeed..😉
@@ianvance9035 If you want to be horrified check out the fate of golfer Eban Byers who endorsed radium water sports drink RadiThor
Oh no, the time line is getting closer to modern times! Will my home kill me before we learn what's killing us today?
In future they will do a Timeline explaining how to post on CZcams can kill people.
That's a very forward way of looking at it!
Newt Tella We already have that information
Newt Tella lol
hidden killers of the Noughties home: Aqua Dots
The Radium watch factories continued to operate till 1978!!! When finally demolished, the building materials was used to fill-in road holes, and distribute the radiation everywhere. If you plan to visit Ottawa, IL, make sure to take with you a Geiger Muehler counter.
I love these shows. Very well produced and informative.
Imagine dying from a vintage vibrator.
I can't even start to imagine hahaha
one could say a little death
She did then she came back for more 😏
Ahem..."electric massage machine" thank you very much🤣😂🤣
Either way your eyes will roll back
Marie Curie was Polish. Her original name was Marie Skłodowska. Same as Chopin and Copernicus, who many relate to other countries. Poland was and is an underestimated intellectual powerhouse.
Asbestos comes from the gemstone of chrysotile serpentine, which looks awesome when polished. It is what gives tigers eye its shimmer.
I had a boss once who had previously worked for an electrical company, and he saw his supervisor lean against a bucket truck. He said that everyone knew that you don't touch the truck when the bucket if up. The man turned purple and fell over dead.
I was on a jury for a similar circumstance
That is the politest description of a vibrator I've ever heard 😂
@jamie ericcon same
I missed that lol
I'm glad I'm not the only who thought this when she picked up the "massager"!
the hostess being like "oh thats what it is... alright" (nervous chuckle)
For sure.
Absolutely L E T H A L
APSOLUTLAY LEETHULL
a b s o l u t e l y l e t h a l 😃
Normal people: deadly
Intellectuals: Absolutely L E T H A L
hahahaha television on youtube
Don't you mean Absolutely LETHAL
...absolutely brilliant commentary from a beautiful commentator - even if I didn't have a love of History I suspect viewing this series would give me one - thank you so much, one and all...
When she addresses the camera my heart melts
Bit of posh totty. Nose ring as she is a bit of a rebel.
Well dang seems the Edwardians might have needed some financial compensation for their and their loved one's mesothelioma
LOL
A typical, greedy Democrat
@@italiantraditionalcatholic2390 you must be fun at parties
Hahahaha
bots have no sense of humor smh
I remember as a child using a modelling material like Play-Doh made of asbestos fibres and glue. The powdery asbestos would hang in the air like dust as you mixed them together, and since I liked the taste of the glue I often licked my fingers. It's a wonder I'm alive.
May I just say, I thought you might have been lying just to have some sort of interesting comment upon this video. After looking through your channel and seeing that you actually are the proper age and all for that to be quite likely, I must say I commend you on your honesty on the internet! Too many people lying these days for likes and such, and knowing you make such sweet, wholesome, honest content brings me much joy! You have earned a subscriber ma'am! Have a good day and stay happy in this nightmare of a plague
@@dangerfloof4710 Thanks! I think that story is too bizarre to make up. But I remember mixing those elements together and thinking nothing of it. Oven mitts were also lined with asbestos.
@@ferociousgumby and so were infants and kid’s pjs-stated right on the label.
OMG!
I remember that as well, grey powder mixed with water to produce a dough-like material which was moulded and left to dry. Came in a big plastic bag which we helped ourselves by the handful, “disappeared” one day.
I love her videos! She should do so much more. She is a great narrator and her videos are so interesting and keep the audience captivated.
Suzanna Lipscombe and Kate WIlliams in the same video? Be still my heart! Fascinating stuff.
The asbestos part made me feel nauseous. I was a home care aide for a person with mesothelioma (caused by asbestos). It's a terrible disease, very painful. It's amazing that people knew it would make you sick so long ago yet it continued to happen until fairly recently.
this kind of behaviour, ignoring/hiding proof of harm for as long as possible in order to milk max profit, has never stopped
@@thesouluniversal indeed! Just look at cigaretts and so many other examples.
They still mine it in Asbest', Russia
@@WhoopDePoopDeScoop so that's where asbestos got it's name.
All for the Love of money
"there will be a fire in the house, no body knew about it and there wasnt any getting out" says the sentence with a smile on his face! What a character lol
wow as i was reading this comment the video played that part. that was a trip O.o
I love how in 16:50 they danced around trying not to say that "massage machine" is an early vibrator
Just seeing this....4 years later. Terrific show but really...absolutely the most beautiful on - camera host/expert I've ever seen!
I love the Welsh bloke, never have I seen a man so thrilled by death, electrocution and pain.
He's my favourite. You can just tell he loves it.
"absolutely lethal :)"
According to the work of those engaged in the field of alternative history, there are secret societies which work on people's persons, involving drugs, hypnosis, and electricities applied directly into the brain, which work results in a curious confusion of pain with pleasure. I don't know whether people have noticed the strange but nevertheless telling correlation between events during and after the Second World War, and the rise in hitherto unknown illnesses and syndromes such as autism, schizophrenia, various mentalisms, and suicide bombers. Mind control is basically a disruption of the electricities of the brain. If Hegel is right then we must expect a sort of reversal resulting in a return to conditions prior to the Industrial Revolution. Perhaps that's what the Darbyites mean by "millennium" because the standard Augustinian model of a continuous apocalypse can only end in a sort of Zero Point, which reminds one of the Big Crunch. Not sure. Perhaps Messiah will arrive in a golden spherical bubble merkaba.
GB live in The Windsor ErA
His accident involving the chemical mixing toys was talked about in the Post War era episode. He said he didn't get to play with it more than 5 minutes before it exploded. Blew out windows and burned him. He is my favorite too.
"It made life easier, but shorter." Yes please.
Here for a good time, not a long time
This is a fascinating series, thank you so much.
Who is the woman giving the history on beauty regimens??? I’m living for her necklace and earring set 😍😍 you know she wore them to impress Dr. Lipscomb since she specializes in Tudor history.
I like how we spend the first part of this laughing at how silly the Edwardians were when it came to the safety of electricity, but then they mention asbestos, which we continued using until well into the 1970s.
Asbestos is still being used. It is unequaled in retarding flames.
It wasn't until the late seventies that composite piping became cost effective for city water distribution, before that it was all asbestos pipe. Most of that infrastructure remains in place to this day as there is no way to completely retrofit a cities' existing water supply.
I say we should bring back Asbestos
_Why?_
To fight climate change
_How?_
1. It will help with our overpopulation and longer longevity problems.
2. It is a wonder material and we can stop deforesting and mineral mining (aside from Asbestos mining)
Support House Bill 621.
@@jackalenterprisesofohio Just remember, you are also on the list for overpopulation and longer longevity problems.
@@standdown4929 I can live with that since I support the correct things like feudalism and monopolies.
A very early *"massage"* machine
Gotta cure that hysteria 😂
Right? Did you see her face?! 🤣
That's their story and they're sticking to it.
Don't forget to use a radium condom with it. XD
Oooh those glow in the dark radium condom...
I love these series and have the biggest crush on Dr Suzannah Lipscomb 😍🥰
Great documentary. Thank you.
Best hostess ever. Perfect voice, perfect flow, and 10/10 hair lol
Oh I don't know Dr Alice Roberts, is pretty hot too..
@@thedarkness97 noooooooo
Tbh I'd watch her read the phonebook 😀
I love her hair so much
Perfect spiral curls!!! Isnt it beautiful!!!??
Its sooo pretty
I need to marry her.
Me too! I can’t stop looking at it!
She is beautiful, intelligent and charming. I think I'm love...
I’m so intrigued by these documentaries, they are so well researched and presented. Kudo’s!
This is another documentary I’ve watched many times it’s one of my favourites
so you're saying the house i've lived in my whole life is slowly killing me in my sleep? WONDERFUL!!
I’ve been living in an old house in France with one of the rooms still wired like this. Bare metal in wooden runners lined with paper. We still turned the light on. I didn’t actually realize how dangerous it actually was.
wow!
Couldn't you get them insulated or anything by a qualified electrician? My Grandad's one. He'd have probably, one of his best hissy fits if he watched this episode, he really would.
Be careful.
When we were rewiring our new apartment we found those old "cables" still in the wall too but thankfully they were just too lazy to remove it before putting in the wiring we were removing which also wasn't great because it was aluminium with fabric around it and not exactly safe either just a bit newer. Still causes fire much more often than what we have now.
I have came across wire wrapped in cloth but not wrapped in paper
My grandmother grew up on a lake in northern Ontario, and the ice company would come every year and cut ice out of the lake for this purpose. They used to love it because they would leave a completely smooth glassy surface that was easy to skate on🙂
Soldiers of the Wehrmacht operating the MG34 and MG42 were issued an asbestos glove for removing the barrel of their weapon. A glove no bulkier than a typical wooly glove was so good that a soldier could fire until his barrel glowed red, remove it and not feel a thing. Asbestos is an awesome substance.
My maternal grandmother, in the 1920s, had her hair burned completely off by one of those waving machines! She wore a wig for several years until her hair had grown enough to be shown again
Fun little side note: Hair Pins to hold up hats, are still banned in Public here in Denmark and must be removed before stepping onto a bus.
why?
@@kiertavasirkus law never got removed from the books, women just stopped using hatpins as often.
You're joking, right? Or is it some sort of paranoid anti-terrorism law?
Hair pins or hat pins?
Wow -- that's awesome! 👒
Brilliant documentary and very well put together. Maybe we should go back and re invent how we do things.
36:51 - "Your blood can pool on your heart". Ending with a beautiful smile :)
That one guy looks awfully gleeful about people dying. "With your luck, you'd be in bed, and there'd be no getting out!"
Well you see I don't trust him to hook up the electricity because he doesn't seem to understand wattage as heating steal wool is called enductance and power surging happened when overloading the capacitance of the power meter. If you're using dc power then power surging dose not happen until transformers are involved but that's what diodes are made for.
Yes, that's exactly what I thought. It seems like he feels superior than the Edwardian people, because he knows what dangerous things they were exposed to. But in reality, anything can be dangerous today as well.
He is not gleeful, but amused how stupid they were back then with taking all the risks at the same time.
@@katana5562 really? Did you ask him? That's cool.
Jamie Dancer Why do you ask, did you ask him?
When he says "absolutely lethal" and shows his fangs...
You mean his eye teeth or canine teeth.
😜
when he gives u that look
The lady kinda looked threatening when she said "The electric light."
Lol
Very interesting presentation. And the pleasant aesthetic qualities of the show's hostess make attending to this fascinating information doubly enjoyable.
There is asbestos in the panels on the outside walls on our houses where I live. Whenever one breaks in the neighborhood I find it very worrying.
I remember my grand mother using her light fitting to power her iron and that was in the 1960s ! My dad put a stop to that soon after and re- wired her Victorian miner’s home
We had these fittings in the 60s and early 70s. As far as I can remember we had one two pin socket in a 2 up 2 down. They call them the good old days 😒
There’s nothing wrong with a light fitting being used as a power socket. It’s when the rated ampacity of the fitting is exceeded by the load connected to it that it becomes a problem. Christmas lights (or fairy lights as they used to be called in the UK) were commonly plugged into them well into the 80s
My grandfather used a special adaptor that plugged into the light in the bathroom, so he could plug in his electric shaver....that was +- 1960 NZ
I can remember as a child asking my great grandfather why he did'nt have a refridgerator. His answer was:what is the ice man going to do ?
Brilliant! Reminds me of the caretaker at my old high school who, when asked why he wouldn't put toilet paper into the lavatories, said "The kids will only use it!!!"
This is such an incredibly interesting and informative video.
this is so cool to see how i would live, i have begun getting into victorian-edwardian fashion and i would love to learn more about it
I discovered Dr Lipscomb just a couple of days ago and now I feel like I've loved her all my life. But yes, I used to want to travel through time and this has certainly turned me off from that. I can't believe how much we didn't know that we take for granted nowadays. Makes me wonder what we will know in the future about our era.
I'm old enough to remember some awesome :firsts." I remember when the ice man came to our house and left a huge block of ice, which was put into our ice box. ( I was about 4 or 5.)...and I remember Mom and Dad imstalling our very first TV in the living room. I was a little ,7-year -old, and thrilled!! Now I could watch SUPERMAN! and of course Howdy Doody.
everyone's voices in this are so soothing
Yes, the calm, posh voices sound almost ironic for the subject matter. There is no dun-dun-DUN "the *killers* in our HOME!" hammy narration with jumpy editing and scary music. The tone is light and calm, and the camera often lingers on the host while she is looking cute.
@@hermanrobak1285 she does look cute
A GREAT VID.....BRINGS TO MIND THE DANGERS OF NEW INVENTIONS. THANKS FOR POSTING .
Great, fascinating documentary
There's a great book about the women who painted the radium clocks -- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. It's heartbreaking, compelling, and informative.
I started reading this book recently and even though I haven't gotten far yet, it's definitely fascinating and yet also extremely disturbing. Highly recommend a read.
I grew up in the town where the majority of those watch faces were painted (Orange,NJ) , all of those factories have been condemned my entire life but they aren't barricaded in any way 😂😅
I've read it, it's very informative as well as heartbreaking.
And now a movie
I didn't know it was a book i saw the movie trailer this week
36:43 love how the Welsh man looks so happy whilst talking about someone dying 😂 love him
I think he's just interested, not happy.
EXCELLENT. Prof Lipscomb does an amazing switch from delight to threat. We love the new tech... Until...
I did love the way the little porcelain post ran through the attic. This was 1930's tech, copper still wrapped in a paper product.
I've seen this episode 4 times now, part because I'm an electrician, but mostly because of the Welsh guy that enjoys danger and death 😂
Electricians have a higher rate of death, I hear...
And a firefighter - your avatar has you in uniform in front of a fire engine 😉 - I assume that your brigade has been called to electrical fires to put them out and find what caused them
He would be a great person to read the Horrible Histories books...
he would make a great health and safety officer people would be so wary of doing anything at the risk of a horrible death
😂
My grandfather won a 4H contest and used the prize money to surprise his parents by bringing electric lights to the farm for the first time in 1930.
VERY NICE - BUT IF HE HAD WAITED THE TVA WOULD HAVE DONE IT FOR THEM.
@@thatguy-art6229 You caps lock is stuck. Shouting at people isn't nice.
Excellent! Thank you
The Electric Light Orchestra overloaded my ear sockets 💡
22:00 asbestos is still a problem for demolition crews and electricians today
Also diesel mechanics. Diesel trucks have asbestos in their brake systems. It killed my father in 1993.
My husband is a welder and he was working on an old fishing ship and it was full of asbestos. One day after he was getting off shift he had a seizure and was sick for a few weeks. He didn’t go back to work on the ship and hasn’t had another seizure in a year.
I had the kitchen sanitized some years ago before a renovation and it was built in 1970.
And its use is still completely legal in the USA.
Lisa Sparks it’s still used in automotive.
I love Dr. Suzanne Lipscomb and Dr. Kate Williams! Beautiful, intelligent, strong women who make these shows 100× better.
yessss! love them
Thanks for sharing 👍😀
Loved the build, intrigued by the meterials and the method, however it was the music that kept me hooked. Great choice of music. Is there any chance of a playlist someday?
*Suzannah has to be the prettiest documentary history teller!!!*
Every time I watch these episodes I just can't believe that even more people didn't die from these hidden killers.
Tuberculolis, influenza, war, and alcoholism usually killed them first.
Thats why they had so many kids, i think
Just like how every time I see an idiot on a hoverboard, I can’t believe that even more umm… “people”, don’t die from these blatantly obvious killers.
@@MrConstanzabahamonde Contraception not existing is also a reason people had tons of kids.
@@davemccage7918 Heck, we're killing each other daily in cars and trucks. But we accept the risks and continue. Something they'll include in the 2120 documentaries.
Spending last year in the hospital ICU, my precious 91-year-old mother had just been set up by hospice in her bedroom. My sweet Mom died at 11:55 pm on that Thanksgiving Eve.
3 weeks later, the house burned down from the faulty 1967 electric wiring.
great history!