The Deadly Everyday Items Of The Post War Kitchen | Hidden Killers | Timeline
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- Dr Suzannah Lipscomb looks at the hidden dangers of the British postwar home. In the 1950s, people embraced modern design for the first time after years of austerity and self-denial. The modern home featured moulded plywood furniture, fibreglass, plastics and polyester - materials and technologies that were developed during World War II.
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Whenever I see these documentaries I think two things. 1)”Gee so aesthetically pleasing I wish I go just be around in that time” 2)”wow....I would have died....numerous times”
Ashley Rosa same lol same
Exactly how I feel!
Same
I grew up in the 50's and I'm still alive!
Once upon a time Darwinian Theory held true; - survival of the fittest. Now thanks to modern society everyone survives - all the cretins who once would have set themselves on fire, blown themselves up, or otherwise killed themselves, are contributing to the gene pool ! I wonder what the future holds for Mankind now?
(By the way, in the 50's and before, Ashley was a popular MALE name in non-American countries, and was even used in the US, as in "Gone with the Wind", so no, I'm not a 70 year old female !)
I was shocked to see the reason my dress caught fire and I was so badly burned due to my nylon slip that passed too near the stove's gas flame. I still bear the scars more than 57 years later!
Always wear natural fibres.
Very interesting to read a comment by someone who has actually experienced one of the hidden killers!
@@Miicrowahvei My greatgrandmother has (she's 103 and still alive) A pretty bad scar from her clothing catching fire once when she was about 20 or so also. She always tells people to where cotton or wool.
@@ingriddubbel8468 Not always. For kayak training we have to wear synthetics because natural fibers get water-logged during the exercise in how to recover from the kayak turning over. :) Certainly anyone from the generation of wool swim suits knows they stretch way out. And my mother discovered her wool dress shrank into a mini skirt during a rain storm in the 1930s. I think we all know what happens to a wet cotton t shirt. :) But they do say that natural is best, along with as little in the way of hair care products as possible, on a plane because of the potential of a flash over during a fire when people are trying to stay low and safe.
That was something my grandma always warned me about - therefore I was never allowed to wear anything that had nylon in it. Not even stockings. I still today have that fear...
And I highly admire You honesty. Still, scars do not make us worse people, and they are just as part of us as the rest of the body.
The door DIY hurts my heart. Nowadays we spend hours and hours combing through salvages and thrift shops for original doors and windows and anything that was once made with a love and care that a lot of people have forgotten over time.
Shotty DIY is definitely up there for items ruined
I thought the same as You, today we have specialized industry to reproduce the old, weathered, distressed, look. when we really had it all along, we did not see the real beauty of it.
I can assure you, don't get too excited over built-ins. They're extremely temperamental. Often not remotely sealed to the basement, either. Like if you had a fire, it could get right upstairs.
Some of it is very sturdy, a lot was badly made or full of half-a**ery. I live with it now. Lol
And indeed the infuriating trend of using mdf, chipboard and alike in the home. Mould traps, exponentially worsened by following generations of 'throw-away' furniture.
I've been binging these hidden killers lately and it's really interesting to me how electricity was not understood for so long. My dad is a master electrician and I've become his apprentice this year.
Hidden Killers in the Victorian home: They didn't understand electricity...
Hidden Killers In Edwardian Home: They didn't understand electricity...
Hidden Killers in Post War Home: They didn't understand electricity...
Hidden Killers in the Victorian home: They didn't understand stairs.
Hidden killers in the Tudor house: they didnt understand chimneys.
Are we all just binge watching these videos around the same time? 😂
@@marissaghost maybe............
@@marissaghost Yes. I never even knew I was interested in the dangers of living in a Tudor home until this morning at 2 am.
Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home: fire
Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home: fire
Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home: fire
Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home: fire
More Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home: more fire
Fires quite the killer
See and behold: *A·S·B·E·S·T·O·S*
Kiss your fires goodbye with this wonderful material.
My mixtape: fire
@@Aranimda kiss the fires and your lungs goodbye :P
On the ejecting power source...In the early 80's my aunt, who was a cake decorator, made me wash her dishes. I was about 8. I stuck my hands in the sink and got shocked. I didn't understand being shocked at that age and simply told her it hurt me. She thought I just didn't want to do it and yelled at me to wash the dishes. Next attempt was met with a stronger shock and repeat conversation with a more stern order to do it again. The third time the shock was strong enough I didn't care what she did to me, I told her I wouldn't put my hands in the water again. She finally came over and saw her mixer cord plugged into the outlet and running straight into the sink (I was too short to see this). Fortunately I was small enough that my forearms had to rest on the metal sink rim just to reach the sink and I had rubber soled shoes on. Still possibly could've severely injured or lost my hands 🤷🏼♀️... Even now I'm not sure exactly what could've happened.
Oh my god!!
😲😲😲
This is why we now have ground fault intercept that will shut off the electricity in a circuit if it is going some place it shouldn't be going. The worst thing that could have happened to you? Electricity would flow from one arm to the other, and through your heart, killing you.
Did she apologise
"No need to tell mummy about this"
My parents bought me a Chemistry set in the 70s, it was fantastic. I have just recently retired after spending nearly 40 years working with a much larger chemistry set.
So, you had your own meth lab ? Cool 😎
@@GTSN38 and your mother came over
My favorite chemistry is water on a grease fire. I saw it on a CC camera and I couldn't help but laugh when it went off . They were watching it like 2 of the 3 Stooges. The guy got out of there like Sonic. Lol
You know it's a great fire when the camera thinks it's midnight. Lol
Every time I watch this I wonder how our species even lived.
Lmao true
The poor survived because they didn't have the money to buy these death traps.
Cooloss O. 🤣
Right
Numbers.
I love the host. She has such a nice voice, it makes these docos. Thanks for all the likes. She is honestly brilliant and super smart plus she entices the viewer to be able to see what it was like in these periods. Love it and love the host ❤️❤️❤️
I'm in love with her.
She's awesome
She’s real. Appreciate her beauty and her lisp. I appreciate when they show how beautiful real people can be.
She's quite addictive!
@@Mike-hz4jp Hottie History
As an American, I often forget how differently Britain experienced WWII, with actual cities reduced to rubble and real damage to their civilian infastructure, but I have a lot of respect for their fight, like Churchill said, they fought the Nazi's on the beaches and trenches and wherever they found them. Americans sent their sons off to war, but they didn't face the reality of a full blown war on the homefront. I tip my hat to the British, well done chaps 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Civilians couldn't especially if they lived in a place where Nazi's invaded or risk being killed Or being put in the camps
they could have surrendered like the French did, that's my point, not sure what yours is 🤷
It appears either YT or the commenter deleted the comment I was responding to
And then there is the Poles (highest % of population perished) and the soviets (highest absolute number).
@@nsbioy yep, I'm American, but my ancestors came from Poland, proud of that heritage. They fought the German tanks on horseback with swords. As for the Soviets, Stalin didn't give a damn about his troops, he was willing to build a wall of Russian corpses just to keep the Germans out of Stalingrad.
My old dad invented the first cooker guard in the UK back in the 60s. It was designed to fit around any hob be it gas or electric to stop kids accidentally pulling on the handle on a hot pan tipping boiling water etc onto the child, which was very common. It was made by a company called hago and sold by Mothercare for years. I expect there are lots of copycat versions nowadays.
I’ve got a 5yr old and I’ve never heard of a cooker guard,I’m gonna have a look now!
BS
Me neither. Just looked it up. Thanks. 😊
Random person: Buys a house.
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb: - So, you have chosen death...
This show makes me a bit paranoid. XD
so i'm not the only one looking at my doors and asking "when are you going to kill me?" XD
It does make me wonder about my own house..
It makes me wonder what's underneath those clothes 🤣
Huh
Hahaha
You missed one prominent danger in the living room TV set. The picture tube was covered with a separate piece of safety glass to prevent injury if the tube implodes, sending shredded glass everywhere, about 30 feet in every direction! There is about 1 ton force per square foot on a vacuum tube. (You can see this separate faceplate on the sets in your video.) This protective glass backside would get dirty (as well as the face of the tube due to the static dust attraction of the high voltage used). The housewife would remove this glass for cleaning, and not replace it ("better picture that way!") Kid sitting near set would get face shredded by the imploding tube. (My mother worked as nurse and saw numerous cases of this). In 1959, federal government made law that all picture tubes must have permanently-bonded safety glass faceplate. No longer could dirt get between faceplate and tube (but it was not uncommon for fungus to grow between in the glue, ruining the tube.)
Please use paragraph breaks and indentation.
The 650 volt DC High Tension feed to the cathode ray tube and watering the house plant placed atop the wooden cased television... BLUE FLASH and BANG.!!! (Sizzle and hope the piece of fuse wire in it's porcelain holder was correctly rated and has opened the circuit..?
Huh. All I knew was they have to sit unplugged for days if you want to work on one. You'll get zapped to high heaven, otherwise.
They didn’t miss anything… they just cannot mention every single thing that was dangerous
Yep... and I remember my father spending hours behind our Dumont TV (in Los Angeles) troubleshooting bad tubes. Our TV was out half the time, it seemed, while the local TV stations spent the other half of the time admonishing us to -- "Stay tuned. We're experiencing temporary technical difficulties." My father should have run over the local station and offered his tube tester device (was a large, wooden box monstrosity with plug holes for various tubes and dials and displays to help guess what might actually be wrong).
I remember as a boy, in the 1980s, my Nan buying me some 1950s toy mazes at a car boot sale, the type where the "ball" was sealed into the plastic maze. I took them home, and after delightfully playing with the "magic silver liquid ball" for a few hours my horrified father promptly confiscated the mazes. I know now, that the "ball" was in fact a blub of liquid MERCURY. It goes to show the extent of having no health and safety, nor understanding of the extreme dangers of so much stuff that was taken for granted in the 1950s. Fantastic documentary.
About 1970, my family doctor accidentally broke a thermometer while I was in his office. He let me (age 5) play with the liquid mercury on his desktop. Yikes!
I can't think of a more prolific creator of fine documentaries than the British. I've been binging on this series presented by Dr. Lipscomb and personally feel they are among the best. That's saying a lot when put into the context of a culture that certainly has to be the best in the world in the business of intelligent, informative and enjoyable documentary creation.
Agreed!
"My school friend was one of them"
OOF right in the feels...
For real!
that gave me chills
That was so unexpected 😢
my chemistry set, went up in blue smoke the first day, almost choked everyone in the house to death, with my sulphur bomb
Nice! No potassium-in-the-toilet-bowl, huh? ☻
i loved my chemistry set
I was about to get one in my 3rd grade year in 2013, but said no because I had a 1 year old brother who could’ve drank the chemicals 😱😰🧪
😱
I’m sure that just about every practicing chemist blew something up, or in some way experienced the destructive power of chemistry as a young person…
I almost died from faulty wiring, in the shower!! Grabbed steel faucet and current held me! There was also a gas burner right there. A sign something was wrong with the wiring was electric shocks in the steel door frames when the stove was on. My dad blamed himself for almost killing me because he was a procrastinating electrician, and he knew it needed to be looked at. Crazy way to almost die.
Understand that
😨
Just like a mechanic never fixes his own car because he works on everyone else's car everyday
The cobbler’s son has no shoes
that can happen in ANY house with an idiot builder...needn't be from a particular time period
The host is very personable. Can watch and listen for hours. The Scottish guy is also very charismatic - want to give him a hug.
I remember I had nightgowns made of nylon and polyester (and this was in the early 2000s in America) and we had a wood fireplace in our condo. My dad would always warn me not to get too close to the fire because he said my dress would melt onto me.
I always detested the feeling of polyester clothing thank god. We could all be dead😑
There are still plenty of TH-cam sewing videos where they happily use polyester and or nylon fabrics for their clothing simply because it ''drapes well''. Unbelievable.
@@ABC1701A and that’s perfectly fine for some clothes like formal dresses or skirts, but definitely shouldn’t be for night clothes. They also cause excessive sweating in a lot of kids and that can cause rashes
@@MikaelaKMajorHistory Straight up poly, yeah. Not the poly spandex blends. They dry fast.
Just don't be a dummy, that's all.
In 100 years, I hope another episode comes named the "Hidden Killers of the year 2000 home"
I bet it will still involve poorly wired electricity.
Blind cords
Using crimpers and straighteners that were wired badly would definitely be on there lol
5g lol
@@sbegum246 how about anti vax?
I never saw a house done out in the style of the 50s that looked as nice as the one in this programme. My grandad's house, like many of that time, had ceilings and walls covered in yellow/brown cigarette stains.
Even today we still have hidden killers in our homes because people lacked common sense. I have to actually talk a friend of mine down as he was going to mix chlorine bleach and pine cleaners. Boggles my imagination that he didn't know he wasn't supposed to do that and it even said on the warning labels of BOTH products.
Non-stick surface pans also become toxic when they become scratched. Also the toxic fumes when the pan is to hot can kill birds.
Two things your friend so also never mix, bleach and ammonia that produces a gas very like what the Germans used in WW I.
Bleach mixed with washing up liquid creates a poisonous gas too. Had to clue a fellow mudlarker up on that only recently.
What's with all of the black ovals around any of the newspaper clippings ?
Some idiot forgot to switch the "Invert Mask" button in After Effects.
In the original episode the ovals were the quotes.
Those are annoying
Probably removed the quotes for copyright reasons?
There is another comment saying that they might have been removed so they could be re added in other languages. That seems to make more sense to me.
Slightly off topic but, I remember in the 70's an Edinburgh University professor came to give us a talk in the Higher chemistry class. On one hand he had stumps for fingers. When he'd gone the teacher told us he'd dropped a bottle of sodium in the lab which smashed on the worktop. To save his students, he scooped the sodium away with his hand.
Wow!
Isn't sodium salt?
Eric Bogar no, it’s an element that in its natural form, a metal. When it comes in contact with water, it quickly creates hydrogen at such a rate that it causes quite a volatile explosion. You’re thinking of a compound of sodium, sodium chloride. Hope this helps!
@@orangutancoochie6213 Okay, I thought salt was sodium. Didn't know it was a compound of sodium. I probably should have took chemistry in school. lol
@@ebogar42 it’s Sodium chloride that’s salt
Limo I find the panel door part was hysterical, because the dude called the panel door ugly. Now those non panel doors are hideous and considered very cheap looking and every household has panel doors
I could listen to Suzannah Lipscombe and Dr Suzy Lishman all day 😊❤
The American set had uranium dust? Omg
It was probably fluorescent powder. "Rocket fuel" was icing sugar, one had to take the marketing hype with a grain of salt (NaCl).
Look up the boy scout who made a nuclear power plant in his backyard for a merit badge.
Sooo how many chemistry sets needed for critical mass (just sayin')...
well it was U-238 mostly. The most dangerous thing about this isotope wasn't the radioactivity but the uranium metal itself was also toxic and pyrophoric. but the dust itself was likely just the uranium ore. You can still actually buy uranium ore off websites like amazon today. It doesn't really require a permit to possess due to it's low radioactivity but other radioactive materials such as higher grade ores, radium, chunks of other radioactive metals, highly radiative artifacts like radium clocks, all likely require a permit and are highly recommended to be kept in a shielded container such as having it surrounded with bricks of lead and kept a good distance away from you while stored.
@@confusedwolf7157 Only about one in a million uranium atoms is U-235, the isotope you need for nuclear weapons. You'll only get about 1g of it out of a metric ton of uranium, so quite a lot.
The truth about the Macmillan "you've never had it so good" speech is that it was a warning about the volatility of the economy created by post-war circumstance that would go on and haunt Britain for decades after. That statement is symbolic of the post-war boom, but also of it's thin facade.
WTF are you on about????
What!!!!!!!!???????? 🙄😵💫
Do you mean like a warning? Don't have unrealistic expectations? I would see the sense in that. I wish society were more adult.
Some of my earliest memories in the early 1950s were PSAs on the radio about nightgowns catching fire. Screaming children and crackling flames.
Ok but why do they put a black shadow over all the newspaper texts so people can not read along but instead stare at a non readable text?
Some of these issues of foam padding in furniture, and fake fiber clothing burning fast, and with toxic fumes is still just as true today here in the US. . Not to mention all the new things made of plastic these days too.
It is but they also use fire retardant now
@@happyfacefries They have, but the EU and the state of California have been banning various fire retardants. Only time will tell if the "safe" substitutes are actually safe.
@@happyfacefries there is flame retardant on almost everything now. They went way overboard, for money.
Made of Plastik garbage! I hate these clothes! I only take wool, leather, cotton. Also natural clothing dont create static electicity! And is more comfortable to wear, and not so loud.
Makes me wonder about the clothes i like to wear
Gosh, 4,300 for a house. Wow.
Beca A. M. Marques I know right? Could pay that off easily
That’s equivalent to about 45,355.54 today
@@chyiannewaters8910 i could still pay that off quick 😂😂
@@clumsycolours1677 True enough. But at the same time. Really depends on where your buying a house now.
I can actually find houses for 40k now.
I don't think that 4300 was in London or anything.
@@captainseyepatch3879 in all fairness, $43,000 for a house today would likely get you a house that is in such bad shape that it's ready for the bulldozer and in a bad neighborhood. Or it might get you a base model mobile home. Then again I'm in America and the economy is currently deceptively bad here. A moderately livable fixer upper home is going to cost you at least $100,000 and the median home cost is around $300,000.
I had a Chemistry set in the early 70's, a Christmas gift. It was huge with about 30 different chemical compounds. I used it twice then it was relegated to the bottom of the closet. No smokes or booms could be made. It had very good instructions with an alcohol burner.
When I was a kid in the 70s my family was poor, so no chemistry set for me. I would go around the house and garage to find chemicals to mix. It was a very dangerous idea
@@GTSN38 You're lucky they didn't have bleach and ammonia out there. Lol. I think you get cyanide gas, like Zyklon B from the war.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I've done that, smoke comes out of it if I'm remembering right
When I was a kid, I would see my mom do the most irresponsible things with electric appliances and that would make me so angry at her. Often she would respond to me 'they wouldn't sell this thing if it was dangerous' which I though was so willfully ignorant. She even managed to damage the electric wire on my soldering iron when she used it for pyrography.
I won't ask what pyrography is!
@@ferociousgumby It's nothing very fancy. It's using something resembling an ordinary soldering iron to write or draw on a wooden surface with heat.
@@ferociousgumby it's basically artistic wood burning
I hope you are all OK😑
@@annnee6818 Well, I got an electrical engineering degree.
They’ve only just started to manufacture fancy dress costumes to modern safety standards. They were classed as a toy not a garment, and as such weren’t legally obligated to make them fireproof. Halloween+fancy dress costume+candles
0:33 Wearing a suit and tie while laying bricks. You can't make this stuff up.
In the the US in the 1930's & 40's my father said everyone that worked in factories wore a suit & tie. You either wore coveralls over or you wore a "work suit" that you change when you got home. I asked him about that after looking thru some old magazines from the company he worked for showing the men at their machines.
Bricklayers were/are 'Tradesmen'; they have a 'Trade' they have served an apprenticeship to learn, it was common to see 'tradesmen' of all descriptions wear jacket, collar and tie in work situations as late as the late 1960's in Ireland. The 'suit' marked them out from 'common' labourers and showed their relative place in the 'order of things'. It all sounds strange now but it was the way of the time, I'm sure much of our current 'normal daily life' will seem ridiculous in 80 years time.
I guess that's the British class system at work?
@@vettekid3326 wow. That's an interesting insight. Thanks!
@@PaulRudd1941 even in the us, apparently, even bums and criminals used to wear suits. ever see a pic of one of those great depression bread lines?
Regarding electric blankets, she said people don't bother to read the instructions . . . but if you're in pain enough to need an electric blanket, you tend to pass out when the pain lifts (at least I do; I have chronic pain - I learned that ice works better for my current pain though). My mom had one of those, but I never used them because I was always worried about fire. I stuck with those microwave bean bags, a hot water bottle (which my mom also had), or simply putting the cat wherever you felt pain (I really did that when I had cramps, lol).
We do DIY right now, and have a lot of DIY shows. A lot of DIY mishaps are just basic physics. What I think of as common sense, but if you don't even know basic physics, that could be really dangerous (if you don't know basic physics, best to stay away from DIY). My friend completely remodeled his house, adding a couple of bathrooms as well, and redoing another. He was a mechanic of large machines for many years, and whatever he didn't know, he researched. He's extremely knowledgeable.
Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb keeps me coming back
How about a documentary on the hidden killers of the modern home? Go ahead, I’m waiting. 💀
@Chelle 😬😬 You said it. 👌
Hidden mould in carpets, plug in heaters
@M M exactly! And there's much more than just all that too!
My smartphone just blew up in my pocket
Those hoverboards that randomly catch fire when you charge them...
I just guess what they will say about our current house in the future
I hope to god that our wifi signals are safe. There's no reason to believe they're not I don't think, I just don't want this documentary to call us out for just blasting signals all over the damn place like it's absolutely fine.
@@Munkenba Vaccines and 5g
PFOAs, microplastics like BPA, fire retardants, antibacterials, Li-ion batteries, etc.
@@Chironex_Fleckeri +hormone contraseptics
@@Cortesevasive That's true.
I could listen to Susanna’s voice day and night .
My great grandad died in the late 40s trying to fix a hairdryer. He turned the switch off but thought that meant there was no power to it. My gran found him dead downstairs at age 5. She still says she tells him off now shes in her 80s
I didn't understand any of your comment
@@clare2401 thanks I though I was the only one
English is not my first language but this guy's sentence is missing something lol
@@Kolibri71 I think he is saying his great grandad tried to fix hair drier, turned off hair drier thinking this would turn off the live electrical power but didn't and therefore he electrocuted himself. Last sentence I think means that his gran never got over it after finding her father dead.
🤔😂
Sounds like ol' grandma talks to grand dad's ghost.
I imagine that a documentary about the hidden killers of today they will talk about Grenfell Tower
Very underrated comment! It's so easy to think people were more foolish or neglectful of dangers back then, but where there's money to be made there's shortcuts to be made as well... Very much a modern tragedy, and so avoidable.
Grenfell was csused by greed and cutting back on necessities.
High-rises in general? Just a bad idea. No like. I don't like anywhere too high to jump from and probably live. Fires, earthquakes, planes (Empire State got his twice within a few years). Nope.
My husband is a fantastic handyman. The one thing he’ll always get a professional to help him with is electrical work.
That’s and gas, scary stuff!
I've done some electric work last time wiring up a house you gotta think safety first
I know next to nothing about electrical. I changed out my 220 outlet to my dryer. I just shut off power to my basement and had a good flashlight. Worked out, I'm still here.
1950's kids doing chemistry experiments. 2018 kids eating Tide pods 🤦🏻♀️
You know the kids did that to try to kill themself. We should be attempting to help them rather than make fun of there problems
@@gnome5652 I kinda think of it as "too stupid to breed."
If you have an issue, you need to grow up and say something. Not wait for people to guess...jmo
Have you seen the predecessor to the Easy-bake oven? There's a video online of a guy actually cooking an omlette on one. He had a thermometer, well over 200F. As I recall.
Oven was useless, though. Lol
Of course, when we were kids, you got thrown into the lake to learn to swim or if you got burned on the oven your mom would say, "THAT'S why I told you NO 17x. Won't do that again, I bet..."
And we didn't lol.
@@gnome5652 Why should we make excuses for stupidity though?
@@LittleKitty22 have you never done a stupid thing?
My workshop is full of power tools from this era, and yeah, they're pretty dangerous. But they're also bulletproof - literally, in a few cases - and incredibly easy to maintain. Most of them only have one or two moving parts, and everything replaceable on them is still standard-sized. I wouldn't trade my 70-year-old Craftsmans and Homecrafts for brand-new Festools. And if they end up killing me, well, I knew the risks.
You can easily make them 99% safe by adding a safety earth/ground to the metal parts. In case of a leaky motor winding, your GFCI or breaker will pop, or even if it doesn't the case will be kept at earth potential and thus be safe to touch.
Of course you have to use them with a grounded outlet, but most houses have those by now.
Fair point. However, most modern power tool are double insulated making an earth connection unnecessary. If you're using older (earthed) power tools I recommend always powering them via an RCD (residual current device), especially if using them outdoors.
@@mfbfreak Have you seen those fractal wood art things? Brilliantly dismantle a microwave (the thing that says, don't fool with this part! I think it's called a magnetron) and plug it in. If you get zapped, you'll die and no circuit will pop. Set some people's house on fire, too. They were toast, sadly.
Some of the problems came from negligence owing to lack of familiarity, like the man who got a shock while using the drill in water. But the safety of meat sensing technology has helped tremendously in terms of safety, I think. So as long as that is the case, I think it might be worth upgrading the saws in particular.
I love Dr. Lipscomb"s documentaries!
me too! I wish there was more of them.
@@Todo-1996 i agree
I love Dr Lipscomb! 😍
@@dannyboyy8465 i wonder why!
@@LeastTango She is pretty tasty
Had the exact same kit. Managed to break or destroy everything in it. Best yesrs of my life!
There speaks a truly adventurous person! Knew friends who experimented with sodium chlorate and oxidants....
Me too
i got one of those chemistry sets it caused all sorts of chaos indoors so we were banished to the large chicken shed with the hens apart from nearly burning it down i think we had purple yolk eggs for a month
Wow, weren’t you jolly lucky to survive the chance of those awful tragic mishaps with that set
What caused the colouring?
DIY culture is what got my family through some tough times by helping just keeping the house up, and it got me into theatre and technical design! Now, I design not only audio systems for concerts, but creative solutions for live theatre and performance audio. I relate it ALL to shows like "This Old House", "New Yankee Workshop" and Hot Rod TV inspiring me!
I wonder if the historians here knew about the build it yourself home kits that could be ordered directly from the Sears and Roebeck catalogs. Complete with everything from the lumber to the nails and screws to the plumbing fixtures. My great grandparents built one of those themselves in 1930.
I lived in one for 16years....I loved my little house.....I collect skeleton keys and I finally had doors to use them on! All the interior doors were skeleton key locks. Dark real wood planks..tongue/groove for interior walls....cat 5 hurricanes? GTFOH.....sucker didn't budge....lol
Craftsman Homes they're called
Can still get them.
Only on America
@@vaderjones357 that’s so cool 😎
Poor Ian and his chemistry set😟💥
Smitten Kitten I want to say why would any parent buy their kids a chemistry set like that? Then again unsuspecting parents probably assumed it was safe. Bad on manufactures
For no warnings etc. I did have a wood burning set when I was a kid, it’s not like that was a real good idea for
A kid. The iron or whatever the metal thing was that burned the wood pictures got really hot.
I came to Perth Australia in 1967 from Nottingham in the UK i will never forget the smell of clean air and clear night sky after 12 years of living with coal burning......... I've never been back
Wow, don't blame you!
the irony is hilarious. maybe look at aus emissions legislation vs europe. and the amount of coal burned. hahah
Just recently discovered Timeline and every one I have seen has been interesting. I spent a weekend binging and still can't get enough. 💜
I was almost electrocuted by one of the 1950s electric power drills. They're very dangerous. The lack of polarized plugs and no safety ground the case of the tool would become live very easily.
Wolf brand drills were notorious for giving electric shocks.
What do you guys mean by "almost"?
@@birdlawyer6191 meaning he recieved the shock of his life but didn't die, I assume.
I found some old Van Der Heem (dutch electric devices brand from 1920s-1960s) adverts, proudly proclaiming how they made their metal-cased power tools safer than those of the competition, by using safety earth or double isolation.
@@kuceracm The same happened to me, when I saw my mother-in-law for the first time.
I do remember at school, during the 60s, quite a few girls with burns from nylon nightie fires.
tonycavanagh1929 if I could get one in the 80s, I’m sure they existed in the 60s. It was deceptive because they didn’t necessarily flame, just smolder.
your friends sure were unlucky!!! never heard of anything like that happening to anyone i knew.
@@feralbluee where did you grow up in the 60s an early 70s. I lived in the east end, plenty of small pokey flats.
@@tonycavanagh1929 in the early ‘60’s i was in H.S. in NYC in an all girls’ school on E. 68th and 3rd ave. then went to City College. maybe there were a lot more fireplaces where you lived. interesting - didn’t think of that!
I`m learning soooo much since discovering Suzanna Lipscomb.
Hahaha same, considering myself a historian now
Very soothing voice for documentaries. Like Attenborough.
Not only is Suzannah Lipscomb MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), F.R.Hist.S., FHEA a bombshell but firstly, of course, an extremely smart woman.
p.s. I love these historical views of an earlier time of our
lives. (Y)
Thankyou...........
Sexy and intelligent! Beautiful combination in a woman!
She's wonderful. I love her documentaries.
Probably drinks too
Not sure what most of these abbreviations mean (I’m not as intelligent 😉), but I really have been enjoying the documentaries. I stumbled upon them while looking for something else, I cannot remember what now. Just a personal disclaimer: Some of these images are not for the faint of heart nor are they (probably) advisable to watch right before turning in for the night if you are one who is likely to easily have nightmares. 😱 So far, I haven’t had any problems. It’s a really great show, and it makes you wonder a bit about your own home and the dangers that lurk within.
@@suzannebowers8634
MA = Master of Arts
MSt (Oxon) = Master of Studies (Oxford)
DPhil = Doctorate of Philosophy
F.R.Hist. S = Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
FHEA = Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
This really is a terrific channel.
I know right? Ive been watching these more than tv.
It is great but there's a fair amount of historical inaccuracies in exchange for sensationalist rhetoric or misinformation. Basically like the History Channel before it became all about driving trucks and pawning items. Its quality tends to fluctuate.
@@elizabethbush5293 Its really a BBC television programme.
@@davidwaugh3824 i know
My grandfather survived WW1 being a medic on the frontlines, yet in 1953 was killed in his kitchen by a gas leak, I was 1yrs old.
This era was my parent's time. They got married, found a home, worked. I had to chuckle when at 31 minutes 58 seconds in, we hear that rationing was ended and people could go out and buy as much as they wanted. I remember my late mother telling me how desperate she and my father were. He worked full time, she worked nights as a cinema usherette and on the weekends, they went to the big shops in Bristol centre because in the food halls, they gave away free samples. They walked from store to store to store and ate free samples, because despite them both working, they were desperately poor. Dad left the army after his national service (where he met my mother) and after only 3 years, joined again as a career soldier because life in civvie street was just too difficult.
I had chemistry and electronic sets in the 70-80's. If I'd had internet also it would have been scary.
"Now, where am I gonna get uranium at 2 in the morning?...C'mon, craigslist..." -- Sheldon Cooper, Big Bang Theory
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg thats so scary.... allow kids to play with flamable sustance !!!
A century from now, ppl would look at hidden killers we have.
Maybe the couch hehehehe..
Smartphones, tv, wifi.
I stopped exercising for 3 years because of screen addiction.
The light from the smartphones can slowly make you blind
It's a freaking miracle we are all alive
Well considering we were once living in caves unable to talk and life was all about survival , writing this now online for all to see and hear i think we have done quite well.
All of these give me ideas for a new Sims playthrough...
If only the sims 4 were realistic and playable
Well, they did manage the burning toilets like in the Victorian era lol
Memories of Sims 2 glitches (crib and grill overlap) and grilled babies still haunt my dreams 😂😫 tf
P. O. Kolibri Right, I remade a sims 2 version of my dad way back in middle school and he got pregnant by an alien. I miss it terribly.
don't forget the infamous Murphy beds in Sims 4 they're a REAL killer lol
@@KawaiiKaabii1993 and a LOW cooking skill👩🏾🍳🥪
I love the creepy music as she moves through rooms.
Me too
Interesting documentary. I thought that little 1950s house was cute.
I literally did the glycerin and potassium permanganate thing for my friends as a kid all the time. Its quite different from packing explosives into a pipe thereby making a pipe bomb, which is how that one kid died if you read the fine print.
Same here, Yet glycerine and potassium permanganate can easily be used with other material as timed incendiary bombs.
I really enjoy these shows however, the only thing that bugs me is when they black out the newspaper articles.
I'm glad someone noticed that, what's the point in blacking them out!?
Possibly copyright ?
@@CrystalRicotta To avoid being sued.
I was wondering if anyone would mention this. It looks like they were going for vignette lighting but instead of making it lighter they made it darker.
I do love the upbeat sign-off _"but who knows what we've missed?"_
Adrian Monk: "See? It's a jungle out there AND in here!"
Dude is so classy that he builds a home dressed in a suit.
That's nothing, watch Buddy Ruch drum in a turtleneck AND a suit. Eesh.
I would love if she makes more of these I would love one on 1990’s toys I remember the skip it could break your ankle
Holy moly, kids, a $4,300 home? I will happily accept the risks of fire, poisoning and whatever the heck else that I’m already basically facing in my 1-bedroom slum apartment where rent is more than double that per year. I promise not to get a chemistry set. Where do I sign up?
Truly, we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
I've watched all of these
Tudor homes
Victorian homes
Edwardian homes
And now Post war
Im beguining to think we should have stayed in caves or huts made of animal skins.
I feel like there's a reason they're not around anymore though....
My grandmother was still using some of these devices into the 90s. Many gave of an ionising electrical smell. I remember she had a single piece toaster with no guard from the elements with a tray you could pull out to empty the crumbs exposing contacts. Just lethal but she knew the dangers. I didn't though and this is a big problem.
This has got to be the finest documentary hostess I’ve ever seen
I sent this to my dad, and he's over there sitting in the kitchen talking about how he remembers all this, meanwhile im in the room over sobbing because I have a sewing needle stuck in my finger from trying and failing to make clothes for the clay figure I was making.
I will always respect the boomers for being able to survive this because damn I can't survive now.
That 1950s home looks more modern than my own home in 2020
This is so interesting!!!!! I love this!!
Why do I suffer glaucoma when the newspaper articles are read to us?
I died inside when they burned those beautiful 50s arm chairs hahahaha
So did I 😲
They probably aren't originals
55:24 My parents have that exact model of handheld electric mixer. It was bought in the late 60s. It's older than I am. It still works like a champ. I have owned, in my own various kitchens, no fewer than six different handheld electric mixers over the last 30-odd years, and they always fail in fairly short order. .
Interesting the comment she made about our couches etc that have flame retardant, but not pajamas. The problem with flame retardant clothing is that it NEEDS to be dry cleaned, as opposed to just thrown in the wash. Otherwise it loses the flame retardant properties. A good example of flame retardant clothing is the coveralls they wear in power stations. They are required to be properly dry cleaned.
Apart from that...
I LOVE this series, awesome learning about the past :D
Great point! And a shoddy dry cleaner could use chemicals that can make clothing even more prone to catching fire...it's possible to be damned of you do and damned if you don't.
@@jmccoomber1659 Exactly! Using fabric softener is also something that makes your clothing even more likely to catch fire!
I loved this. I saw so many things that we had growing up. It’s sad that people died from not know how to prevent accidents.
"Plastic clothing burst into our closets"... yeah, it also burst into flame quite often. Thank you, I am happy with cotton, linen and wool.
"At the time wages rose faster than home prices, causing a boom in home ownership"... Well, we fixed that good. Wages are similar to my dad's wage 25 years ago. Houses are not.
I absolutely love this series. Its extremely fascinating. when they reached the part of DIY i thought of i love lucy where they try to build an outdoor fireplace of course somehow ethel and lucy mess it up in a hilarious way. It also brings memories of my parents who did everything themselves quite impressively too. entire new kitchen bath and an above ground pool my dad cleverly placed in the ground then built a deck around it. my diy only consist of gardening and painting but once i installed a kitchen floor my ex husband thought i had a guy do it and got mad but i didn't it was just me lol..
I remember building our own fallout shelter.
"my ex husband thought i had a guy do it and got mad but i didn't it was just me lol"
It's good he's an ex
I don't remember this episode, I do remember when they introduced i think the dishwasher or some appliance that she asked Ricky to allow her to get. I also remember the wall paper episode and I said to myself, first off never get stripes or spirals unless you like the feeling of being dizzy and going cross-eyed lol and also to remember to have a window open for the fumes to avoid getting dizzy lol like Ricky when he stepped foot into the room.
We grew up broke but now that I've watched this. I'm very grateful for that.
The lady host is wonderful!
The voice... Oh... I could listen to this voice 24/7😊
Absolutely in love with her voice ❤️💙💚
I remember plug sockets set just above our bathtub in our new house built in 1955 and I remember oh so well my mother drying her hair with her prized hairdryer plugged in whilst we was in the bath . What a different world
Saying..
it must have been different here in the U.S. i never saw an electric plug near a bathtub!! that’s really scary!
Man, that was great watch. Thank you for quality content.
Wow. Modern chemistry sets literally contain nothing but stuff you can find in your kitchen like salt, vinegar, baking soda, etc. and therefore, they’re actually really boring!!!
Didn't know that I bet the safety instructions are now larger than the chemistry set LOL.
@@Witheredgoogie Not even necessary as the chemicals included aren't even close to be dangerous.
In fact you can even eat them and still be fine to be honest !
Don’t mix bleach and ammonia. A couple common household things. Very bad if you do. Household stuff isn’t all boring.
Yeah, Ammonia and Chlorine combined are pretty boring
American history nerd here. This woman is my queen!
She's in the UK.
@@zyxw2000 doxxing is never cool /jk
I had a friend in the 70’s who destroyed the family bathroom with a chemistry set, I believe she had one of the last ever..
Damn, sounds like a bit explosion. Imagine explaining why the sink is in 100 pieces once your parents gog back home! Did she survive?
Aha -- so THERE'S the potassium-in-the-toilet-bowl I have been waiting for...?!
Why are the articles being blacked out?
There's suppose to be text above the black part like in the other episodes of the series but I guess someone forgot to put it on this one :/
@@horse14t So that's why?! Thank you. I was just thinking "That black tint doesn't highlight those words very well. Am I missing something?" lol
This would be the version that the production company would sell to non-English speaking broadcasters, so that they can add the text in their own language.
maybe for annotations or something like that
Show: polymer sofas
Me (did textiles in gsce): ok fine
Show: sitting with cigarettes
Me: oh no, they're gonna start a dangerous fire
*Starts a dangerous fire*
Gosh that's so clever
In America gas water heaters mounted in the bathroom are completely unheard of. Central heating was the norm before the war..