I remember as a child that my mamaw had extremely steep stairs. The grandchildren, including myself, fell down those stairs at least once a month. A lot of times we would fall straight down and hitting your back on the way down. It would knock the breath completely out of you and you would have an enormous bruise.
That's precisely why my grandparents had their stairways all carpeted in the late 1940s. The oldest cousin was born in 1949, so although the hard stairs were perfectly fine for the prior generations, my grandfather definitely believed that his grandbabies would NOT be falling down HARDWOOD STEPS! 😂
3:30 - I heard of an old Chinese fairytale about this. In which a rich but cheap farmer requests wine for his birthday from his three sons. He has a big barrel in which each of his sons can pour their gift of wine. However, each of the sons thinks that it will be cheaper to pour water instead of wine, after all, one small jar of water will not matter much when added to the two jars of real wine, right? And when the farmer saw the barrel was not completely full, he filled it up with a bit of water. After all, what difference would that little bit of water do to the three jars of real wine? And when they raised their glass in celebration, all four of them tasted only water but dared not to say anything lest they have to reveal their deceit. Thus they praised the drink for being quite a good wine...
The farmer would’ve asked for spirits, not wine. Wine was considered a cooking ingredient (as you can find on the shelves of any Asian grocery store even now), while hard liquor distilled from sourgum or other grains are highly priced celebratory drinks. People in some regions would seal a jug of spirit when a daughter is born, and keep that jug sealed and buried underground for safe keeping until her wedding day, and open it at the wedding banquet for the celebration. It is also much easier to adulterate spirits with water because both are colourless.
@@MsWinterlife It was told to me in Dutch by a family member, so I'm quite sure a lot of the details have been changed by the translation, his own personal flare & my summerizing of it. :D Thank you for the information! I always enjoy hearing more about other cultures and practises, specially when it comes to things that change through time.
@@brega6286 Now they sell us dog chews made from toxic meat, shoes made by political prisoners, plastic or from polluted water fish, lead painted toys, fake eggs, stuffed animals sewn by children, and electronics that break in six months. But we LOVE their low prices!
I actually had one of those spinal abscesses they talk about around 15:00. Mine unfortunately did reach the spinal cord and caused paralysis, but fortunately did not kill me. Of course, I was fortunate to live in the age of modern medicine so they were able to remove the abscess in surgery and after a month of rehabilitation I was able to walk again with a walker. Within another month, a cane. Within a few more months with no support. I still don't have everything I used to and never will, but I am very thankful to God for what I have. Most who get what I had are not so fortunate, and I was told it has a 25% mortality rate.
Natural gas on pilot lights, most likely. Electronic ignition isn't as bad. I don't think. I think you can get by w induction and air fryer, but I'll need to see my electric bill first.
@christine pettett Cute that you think it happens to the extent it has in the distant past. There are still issues yes but nowhere near as bad as before.
Suzannah has to be my favorite...narrator? Host? Whatever her title would be. I don't know why, but there's just something so incredibly engaging about the way she explains things.
For god sakes don't watch Hoarders... Watching the first two episodes my girlfriend and I decided to take a closer look at our home and decided to move the refrigerator and clean it out....... Oh my God !😮😵💫😩🤮
Not only could I watch the hostess all day but I could listen to her all day and never grow bored. She could be talking about the characteristics of the Tsetse fly’s parenting abilities and it’s like butter on toast. Who is she?
Stephen King wrote a short story that he titled “The Mangler”, it is about a laundry machine that had some human blood dripped on it and it started killing people…
My grandmother had "servant stairs" in her old Victorian. The treads were narrow, the space was narrow, they were worn, and they went around a curve. Loved them as a child. Wouldn't go near them as a young adult.
I had a set of these in my closet going up to my attic from my bedroom and I did fall down those stairs and barely missed hitting my head on a huge nail that was on the inside of the door that you could see when you were going down the stairs like I would have died if that happened.. it was bad enough that on my way down I broke an entire wood stair with my body in half. It hurt really bad. I fell down some carpeted stairs once too in my next house that were full size stairs but that's a day when I think I might have had a mini-stroke Kitty other medical event and it was really scary and had nothing to do with the stairs at all and everything to do with something going on in my body at that moment. I didn't just fall on the stairs I fell probably 40 times on and getting to the stairs from my room, and down them and to the front door; just getting to the front door where the mailman was was a nightmare. My landing spot was outside in the front yard after falling into bushes outside my front door and everything. I do have to say, that mailman was a piece of junk person, because he didn't even ask me if I was ok. And anyone with half a brain would have noticed that someone doing that Continental falling and being very upset and crying over it probably wasn't okay and probably needed medical attention. Or maybe I have MS or something like that as it's in some females in my family. But yeah those stairs sucked!!
I’ve toured some Victorian homes in the US with servant stairs. Very steep. Very dangerous. I got halfway up and then went back down. I’m not old, 30’a at the time, with hip problems anyways. So ya, not doing that at all
The fact that the manufacturers knew the dangers of radium, leaving their women vulnerable/susceptible, then _blaming_ the disastrous affects it had on the women is evil. The sugar addiction we have today is unreal. There's processed sugar in virtually every processed food. It's no wonder our bodies crave it. That's another thing I cut out of my daily food intake. I've experienced dramatic changes in my body and wellbeing without it.
My mom was electrocuted as a toddler by a cloth covered extension cord. All she did was drool on it because she was teething. She's lucky to have survived. This was in the 70s in a tiny town
Such a great historical deep dive into the dangers around homes spanning centuries. Very educational & now I understand why doilies were such a big thing for my grandparents & great grandparents. I will definitely re-watch!
I have a friend who has a home that was built in 1845 and the stairs going to the second floor has the very narrow stairs and when you step on each stair you have to walk almost sideways going up and down quite scary. My grandfather and my dad died from mesothelioma, they both had retired from working in the boiler systems that heated schools
Can you pls explain ur dad symptoms. I'm always sick not like throwing up but always have a runny nose and always feeling like crap I also have hep c that I haven't treated. Idk why I haven't done it.
Mesothelioma has taken many from my loved ones. I worked with a hairdresser when I was in my youth that lost her husband, then she passed, and all 4 children eventually died from this cancer. Recently I lost my spiritual dad from the same cancer. So sad that it is still impacting so many to the use of asbestos. Many of the older homes I'm sure had this, and I used to live with them a few years. The home is no longer there...part of the redevelopment of an older community of Nashville, West Nashville (the Nations) is slowly being destroyed and turned into the generic subdivisions common here. So sad really. I don't go there anymore...too heartbreaking for me. I don't do change well! Gentrification my arse. My Grannie was a hairdresser and I remember her electric permanent wave machine! By the time I was born in the early 1960's it was no longer used, but she did give me a personal demonstration without chemicals or electricity of course. It was horrible! And she still had the old curling irons too. I recall having a friend in Little Rock in the 1980's, that had her own black beauty shop and they still used the irons that were heated then used to straighten and curl their client's hair! I wonder if that is still a thing for the African American beauty shops?
This is a great video. The things others went through for us now to call it “common sense” is amazing. All the knowledge we can learn from this … I love it.
I look at the length of this and thought there’s no way I’m gonna watching all this right now but every time I go to switch it off another interesting danger comes up. Such a cool idea for a series.
A video like this pushes the worst. The modern era would creep you out if they mentioned the thousands of modern things we live with and consume that is killing us. Pasteurized milk, pesticides, 5G, microwaves, plastic clothing, shots, blue light, et cetera.
I’ve noticed recently on a British show A&E..that the stairways in the homes where accidents have happened are still quite narrow and steep. It amazes me there aren’t more injuries from the dangerous steps.
I have a phobia about freaky stairs especially curving ones. Even in my dreams. I have been in various homes with tiny features and castles with odd curvy ones...also a recurring memory of climbing the Statue of Liberty stairs..I was under age 4.
To watch this as people in my country cry for deregulation and claiming that companies will do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing is terrifying. These are the "good old days" they think they remember-a time where companies would kill thousands to save a dollar. I fear the day where deregulation really takes hold.
Yeah, because having your customers dying in droves is SO good for business! What an ignorant statement. Companies don't intentionally create bad publicity for themselves because in a free market economy the consumers will choose another brand. Regulations are barriers to entry into a given market. They reduce the number of players in the market thus leading to fewer choices for consumers and even to monopolies. When consumers have no choice - as with anything the government provides- then the providers are free to make inferior and dangerous products. Regulation does little to nothing to make products safer. It just makes them more expensive.
@@chadettwein7667 someone didn't even watch the video lol. A lot of the older products, especially food, was intentionally adulterated with harmful products for the sole reason of making a bigger profit.
@@chadettwein7667 companies kill their customers all the time because the payout to their families is cheaper than fixing the product for thousands or millions of people. And that’s still happening today it’s not a historical argument.
Exactly, no one even cares when you mention that 800,000 American children alone go missing each year. Millions, world wide are sold into human trafficking. Since they're not talking about it on TV few care.
It has never stopped or changed. Just one example is children's playthings, play grounds and the things we did our parents wouldn't have thought twice about. Just in the 50 years I've been alive. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Alaska, moved to a small city, then to Denver then to a small ranch town in Wyoming. City people don't let thier kids do things kids do here. It's to dangerous, but people here don't let thier kids run around the big city, to many crazy people. But we ride horses, drive 4 wheelers, side by sides, tractors, farm equipment, use tools, drive, change irrigation before 12yrs old. But still we don't let them do the things we did, our parents, our grandparents. We make the decisions to use products as adults and in America turn around and file lawsuit on anything we don't like. Even thou we made the decision. Life will always change, inventions, products, and in 100 years we will say the same thing. People who say why would they do that, why do u do what your doc tells u too. Why do u buy that make up, why do u take weight loss stuff that kills your heart, why do u trust a self driving car? Because u of vanity and WANT of the newest best. Nothing has changed. Just the Era. And communication. Just like crime and serial killers and school shootings. In America we've always had ALL of these, nothing has changed other than we have the ability to know everything about it within 10 seconds of it happening. Before u didn't know what happened outside your area and it took a month before u did. U didn't know what was bad for you. We had to learn as a species and humans always learn the hard way because we believe we are superior. My dog learns what hurts it faster than people will acknowledge what's bad for them. This will always be. It's no differant than tourists and travelers going to Yellowstone national park in Wyoming that never lived around the wild. And they ask when the animals are caged up so they can camp😂. Or each year several get impaled and stomped by a bison they try to take a picture or or pet or put thier young child on thier back😮. Rarely do you find a human that has the respect for the earth and all of its dangers, electricity, gas's, elements, natural chemicals, water, the power of mother nature is greater than any one of us, and we will never be able to harness it and not be in danger. So don't go thinking we are better or smarter than our ancestors. We are doing the same exact shit in a more advanced smug way! And yes I'm one of them, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting under my aluminum awning, on my wood and concrete porch, with my energy drink, on my mobile phone commenting to people all over the world getting ready to drive to the fuel station in my car then go pick up the meds my doctor told me to take at the pharmacy!!!! We will never change! I'd rather be a dog lol😂
My daughter had a two story home from the mid 1800s. The stairs were beautiful but also straight up.. or down. I wear a US size 7 shoe and my foot was longer than the steps were wide.
In the early 1950’s radium was put into pellets attached to a medical device, forced into the nostrils as far as the sinus cavities. This was to burn’ polyps out of the sinus cavities and prevent allergy symptoms. I had 6 of these painful treatments as a child and developed ovarian cancer in the 1980’s, probably due to the radioactivity received. The word ‘iatrogenic’ loosely means ‘doctor induced’ illness.
@Fran Rogers-Sundberg and nosocomial infections are infections picked up during a hospital stay. I worked with more than just a few very sloppy residents in a teaching hospital. The majority are VERY careful, but you do have some that could care less.
I love how every time they found something new, they started to use it on everything and immedtly. They started to eat it, bathed on it, painted their walls and clocks with it... Not even second thinking that there might be something dangerous about it. No, just let your kids play with it and maybe after 50 years find that it kills everything it touches.
The REALLY stupid part is that Edison (who wouldn't gaf, as proved by Topsy) and the Curies KNEW. Or certainly had to suspect why they were sick. Both Curies had issues from radiation. Pierre got killed by a carriage after problems w weak legs. Marie lived longer.
How many here today though leaped for the stupid untested and lightening- quick and hyped 'vax' without looking, no independent inquiry? Its already taken far more souls than all these items in this series. And we've ( not me) only just begun.
@@renegadetenor absurd comment. Google what happened in the days before vaccines. People would’ve given anything to stop common lethal diseases. Google what happened when the polio vaccine was released - people lined up IMMEDIATELY for it. Know why? Because they’d seen pain and disability and death by disease for generations without any chance of stemming the tide and increasing their chances of survival. Google what happened with small pox. In the 1700’s in America, they didn’t have vaccines. They had “inoculations”. Aka they cut your skin and infected you with small pox and then hoped you survived. If you did? You had just been vaccinated against the disease. Ben Franklin didn’t get his son inoculated and he ended up contracting the illness fully and died as a result. Even way back in the 1700’s, when THAT was your form of protection, Ben Franklin said he’d wished he had done it because his son would’ve had a chance to survive. We have a century of science showing how lucky we’ve been to eradicate disease via vaccines. Know who would’ve given anything for a vaccine during a pandemic? Literally every other generation that ever existed and was virtually wiped out by pandemics. Ask people who contracted the Spanish flu during the last major pandemic if they’d have preferred chancing it or taking the damn vaccine. I’d put money on them lining up for the damn shot, too, instead of being so obtuse they’d choose certain death over preventing their own demise and that of their loved ones. What a privileged and ignorant notion that vaccines aren’t a goddamn miracle.
That's human nature though.... jump in, think later.... The worst part is when they cover up the danger.... and they still do that.... human nature... for profit!!!... It's amazing we survive!!
Brilliant series,not only do you hear tales of Victorian life,but you get to see the inventions,i thought the look at me & what i have culture started with social media related to the smartphone,no the Victorians were the original trend setters,the Doc is a nice addition to these Victorian tale's 🇮🇪
Try the actual history hit TH-cam channel they bought the rights to this video. Amazing how many people put this and many of their videos up with monetization on here.
@Meghan McIntosh it's free for everyone. Monetization is paid for through advertisements, not viewers. There are hundreds, probably thousands of millionaires thanks to TH-cam.
No one deserves to be punished, tortured, or degraded for being poor. Your ancestors suffered in vain...you still live in a society that thrives off of slavery and genocide.
The episode about electricity immediately made me think of the scene in Disney's Carousel of Progress in WDW where the house had been newly wired for electricity. It has those light socket adapters leading to all sorts of appliances, and when the dad demonstrates how great they all are, it blows a fuse and ends up sending the whole neighborhood into darkness. lol
What's horrific is what Edison did to elephants and stray dogs to demonstrate how electricity worked. Horrible, disgusting thief, cruel and sick human being. 😢
It's incredible that electricity was new and strange merely 100 years ago. I wonder what our great-grandchildren will say about our time, about things that we consider awesome and new and must-have and that will prove to be dangerous in a few years...
@@emslady77 vaping and smoking are things only done by the very very bottom of the socioeconomic classes. Its very very odd to see someone doing either unless they are very very low class.
Honestly when my grandmother died as a kid I kind of didn't think that much of it other than "she was sick". But as I got older I found out it was from asbestos as a result of her working at a company called "kellwood" way back when. And before she died there was a big class action lawsuit in motion against them and it's been going on for about 10 plus years now. And only just recently as of December of last year were we contacted by a lawyer about payment.
sorry you and your family had to go through that. im glad you are able to contact them about a payment but my god 10 years! how exhausting and time consuming for victims. blessings to your family
Hey maybe by the time they've finished litigating it there might be a few dollars left over for the actual victims after the attorneys fees. For more information Google anything about Howard hughes's estate being probated
I LOOOOOVE watching these series. Absolutely fascinating. I did English Studies as my BA about 11 years ago), I'm a European, and I just love love watching this.
Just imagine all the ppl who had to die in order for the safety regulations and inventions to be put into place in order for us to be comfortable and safer. Now imagine all the ones that we don’t yet know about and have yet to be created
Because of that, they did not die in vain. They sacrificed themselves unknowingly and unintentionally, which saved us from going through the disasters ourselves.
Gas stoves w pilot lights, probably. B/c gas is always burning. I'd say noise, too. I think the constant noise of most areas makes people nutty. Plus isolation that exacerbates the crazy.
I hope they make an updated modern day version of this called Hidden Killers of the Modern Day Home so they can include non stick pans with PFAS, titanium dioxide, artificial food dyes, things of that nature.
Imagine all the bad shit in the products we eat from stores. It's sad you can't even trust what you put in your system over corporate greed and profit. It's unfortunate that the world even has to operate that way 😔
And yet corporations still try to skirt regulations and even have regulations removed so they can make more money at the cost of public health. It is a sad reality.
My aunt used to regularly poison the family with Thanksgiving turkeys. They finally convinced her to stop. She was stuffing it the night before cooking. The stuffing had eggs in it but didn't get thoroughly cooked (very dark brown outside, maybe just warm inside).
This is particularly why I always do stuffing in a separate pan rather than actually in the turkey. It’s just too hard to make sure it’s fully cooked otherwise.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Yes. What I mean is some presenters with excellent credentials are not engaging and come across as slightly boring even when presenting things they are passionate about. Dr. Lipscomb is not boring at all with her presentation. I don't see how that's confusing. Cheers
Perhaps this has been said previously in the comments, but, this seems to explain why we were taught as children to stop, drop, and roll if we caught on fire. I guess it used to be common.
My mom was born in the 40s, in Hawaii. They used one of those roller washers. She got her arm stuck in it one day, but luckily for her, in the 40s, the roller washer came with some safety guards. I think her arm was almost broken, but not mangled. I also wanted to add that a black man named Lewis Howard Latimer discovered the filaments for electric light and Edison took from those discoveries and went on to light homes.
@Erin Krabill it's amazing how many things where created from the minds of anybperson of color including but not limited to Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian; that has been taken over by greedy white men.
I see little to no difference in the way corporations treat consumers today, whether it's adding micro plastics to our food to raise the price, or selling useless or faulty appliances without proper testing, the consumer is just dollar signs to them with no accountability
It has always been that way and will always be that way. People are against government regulation, and in a lot of ways I can see why. At the same time, those regulations inhibit greedy a-holes from being greedy a-holes. Deregulation of the financial sector lead to the 2006 recession.
My great-grandmother was killed by an early Maytag washing machine. It had a long belt going to a gasoline engine and her long hair got caught in it. My grandpa's brother found her (it had nearly decapitated her) and had nightmares for the rest of his life.
Very good and informative video. Was a good watch. However it is worth noting that there are times in the video where the music is way too loud. You can't even hear what is being said properly.
My heat was out during a very nasty cold snap. It made me really appreciate when my ancestors had to warm up a BRICK to warm their bed. And getting out of your warm bed to face real cold is exhausting. No wonder we only lived to be 40-something.
As a Builder including many Stairs this isn't something I feel I need to watch but my God the well spoken intelligent, Beautiful, Blond Presenter makes me want to loop this all day long on weekends! Are there more like her in England?
I love that every line of his is like the end of the world. I want a whole channel dedicated to just him reading fairy tales--punctuating the end of every paragraph with something like "That's nit goot atoll... They'll all goin' to dae *sniff*"
Pressure Cookers are one of the most dangerous appliances around, yes they are someone safer than they once we're but I've never allowed one in my home. I'm a Retired Nurse in the ED, they are no joke!!
Watched one explode. Neighbor making Mason jar fruit. She turned away as it burst, her robe and kitchen covered in fruit. Oven she was working on was destroyed, along with hood vent and cabinet above.
I make my own mushroom substrate with them and will only use the og German or Japanese ones. And I only use it in my detached garage. 22 years no accidents but I’ve seen first hand the damage they can do when one went off at a co growers inoculation station. He’s blind in one eye and missing a large part of his jaw and has a huge scar on his chest where a chunk of metal entered his body. But he’s alive. He just slow steams in a sealed plastic tub now.
My dad died from asbestos. In his case he was an Ordinance officer in the American Army. They used to wrap the explosives and weapons in asbestos for safety.
I love suzy, this was the first video I watched her in and I come back again at least once a year. I always get so excited when I see her in other videos... love it when she pops up when I am rewatching time team episodes 😊
Sorry, this may be off topic, but Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb is an extraordinarily beautiful woman. Great documentary by the way. The Tudor Home part of this documentary was my personal favorite.
Very good and informative I will definitely watch again. Not only is Suzannah intelligent and soft spoken but beautiful too! We never had any televisions catch fire like in the video, when I was a kid but I did see a few along with a few of the old tube style radios. Asbestos mining is still done in Russia and the miners have a short life expectancy.
@@dianeatkinson2253 Whether she is using a script or not to me doesn't matter. What does matter is if she can deliver a message and hold her audience's attention.
Sadly even today it can be challenging or nearly impossible to regulate harmful particulars or items that humans and animals are exposed to as so many things today are simply labeled as modern or helpful even healthful.
@@Dillybar777, Wifi aka Why Fry for one, Parfum, that is in most household products, and all processed foods. Americans are openly being fed and given these things to dumb us, and make us sick.
Like Ammoniac vetyperod haircolor, toxic waterbottel were is microplastic,our cooking pots with aluminium or teflon wich goes in ur body when broken, and i dont even go with food adatives with E codes, hormones chancing shampoos, wifis/5g,i could go on and on 😂
Bought my first house at 22 yrs old back in 1989. Was run down and 100 yrs old. Lead paint, asbestos, leaky basement, electric wiring from the 1930's. Boiler was installed in 1945. Was a death trap. I survived.
Susannah Lipscomb is an absolute gem. Effortlessly & naturally beautiful, intelligent, well educated, well rounded, and well spoken. I could listen to her for hours! Such a pleasant voice. It would be great if she would do book narrations, especially on some of the most beloved classics. Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women... She *absolutely* would do them justice. ***Edit: Just found out that she does narration on a book she authored, "A Visitor's Companion to Tudor, England" and partial narration on a book she co-authored with Helen Carr, " What is History, Now?" both historical non-fiction and just from the preview I know we need to hear some fiction narrations from her! Someone try to make it happen, PLEASE!!! 🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻
Dr. Lipscomb 🎉 It’s actually a miracle that the whole Victorian and then Edwardian generations somehow survived after that mortal graveyards, as their top notch “luxurious” family places appeared to be in fact.
I think what i like the most is , your a human and narrator. Im soooooo tired of everyone using A.I. narration. Its rediculous. So your a comforting break from that.
I've got a servant's staircase in my house (1900, SAV GA) and my landlord blocked it off for safety and storage. It's only about 2ft wide with a grade that takes the main staircase (which is also steep enough for myself and even my cat to fall down) 2 landings to traverse. I previously lived in a 1940's house built to emulate the 1920's and the stairs were so steep that even as an avid hiker I couldn't walk down the stairs without my ankles popping. That house also gas gas heaters set into the walls of each bathroom lmao
The Victorians really took one for the team didn’t they Honestly sitting here paying my respects to all the people who died from good intentions and lack of knowledge…they are the sole reasons we live the way we do.
Aptly named “The Mangle”. One of my grandmother’s six sisters had some of her long hair and part of her scalp ripped off by an electric version of this contraption. However, how in the heck did heads get successfully mangled up in the original Mangle? Reminds me of stuff from an Indiana Jones flick.😮
I saw something like that on a demo for a car serpentine belt when a woman got scalped. She lived, but the demo was great :) "Stuff you wanted to see, but not w your stuff."
Lol, my brother and sister and I totally fell up and down and shoved each other up and down “standardized stairs” our entire childhoods. Science and safety can’t compete with bored brats!🤣🤣🤣
My husband and I recently discovered that one of the steps, I think the fourth or fifth one up from the bottom, leading to our second story townhouse is narrower than the rest, maybe by about 1.5-2 inches. It’s not super dramatic but it’s enough to catch you off guard and trip you up. I’ve definitely slipped on it a few times, both going up and down, and I’ve even completely slid down the last few steps and bruised my whole body because I got tripped up on the stupid thing. And our building really isn’t that old. I think it was built sometime in the 1980’s. But since noticing it, I’ve become hyper aware of it when I’m going up and down the stairs, especially if I’m carrying something like the laundry basket and can’t use the railing. Even the maintenance girl who’s been working here for many years and has come in our particular unit numerous times over the years hadn’t ever noticed it until we pointed it out. It just goes to show that even 100+ years later, we still encounter the same problems due to builders either cutting corners or just plain laziness and carelessness. Even though we’ve known the perfect equation for safe stairs for well over 100 years, some builders still seem to miss things or even intentionally cut corners to save time or money.
Things are no better today. I bought a CE-marked lamp. When I came home, it did not work (the electric system was malfunctioning). So I went back and had it replaced with a new one. That seemed to work, but shortly after, dust kept appearing on my table. When I checked the lamp a month after I bought it, half of the the socket for the light bulb had crumbled away. The lamp was fatal to use, so I discarded it. I also bought a kettle. It lasted a year, then it started malfunctioning and I had to stop using it. NEVER BUY ANYTHING WITH A CE-MARK ON! It is deadly dangerous.
although the dangers of asbestos became very well known and documented, it was still widely used in construction materials up until the 1980s because of its fire retarding properties, and because they struggled to find adequate alternatives. It was also commonly used in brake pads for cars and trucks. Whole new materials had to be invented to replace asbestos. It is however still used in some firefighting gear as heat protection
The important thing I took from this is.... if it isn't broke, don't try to fix it. Asbestos is so widely spread it's literally impossible to eliminate it without making it a deadly problem. Leave it alone, unless there's no other choice!! Better to seal it in where it is. It would be great to go back in time and never invent this stuff... but that would be true of a lot of things!! 🙄
Oh, mangles scare me!! I had a teacher who had a terribly deformed (mangled?) hand, due to getting it caught in a mangle when she was a little girl! Scary, awful things!
Until 50 years from now when they make a documentary on why people in our days had so much cancer, mental illnesses and weight problems.. It might be worst then. I don’t know I’m just wondering.
@@MadGamerRus Peace and prosperity are not a natural state of the human existence. There was always conflict between people and that is not about to change, not when war is such a profitable business.
I can 100% attest to the stairs thing!!! My house here in Iowa was designed and built in 1905 (then burned down and was rebuilt from the same plans and same materials in 1913). It has a service stair and a grand stair. I always prefer the grand stairs. It's a much more comfortable step versus the much narrower, much steeper, NO rail service stairs that go to the kitchen. At the top of them there is also small room with a supply cupboard that was separated from the rest of the upstairs by a door.
I have a bucket of plaster of Paris in my craft room and I cannot imagine putting this in any type of food and especially bread!!! This is just totally insane!!!!!
“Stairs are quite dangerous”, don’t gotta tell me twice. Doctor told my mom that I had 0 chance of survival when I split my skull open falling down the stairs back when I was a toddler. Miracle I’m here today, learning about the dangers of homes lmao
I remember as a child that my mamaw had extremely steep stairs. The grandchildren, including myself, fell down those stairs at least once a month. A lot of times we would fall straight down and hitting your back on the way down. It would knock the breath completely out of you and you would have an enormous bruise.
That's precisely why my grandparents had their stairways all carpeted in the late 1940s. The oldest cousin was born in 1949, so although the hard stairs were perfectly fine for the prior generations, my grandfather definitely believed that his grandbabies would NOT be falling down HARDWOOD STEPS! 😂
That sounds awful😨😨 Did any of you break anything??
@@katherinetutschek4757 no by the grace of God.
@@vito0411girl Thank God😣
Oh goodness that doesn't sound good.oh my goodness 😳
3:30 - I heard of an old Chinese fairytale about this. In which a rich but cheap farmer requests wine for his birthday from his three sons. He has a big barrel in which each of his sons can pour their gift of wine. However, each of the sons thinks that it will be cheaper to pour water instead of wine, after all, one small jar of water will not matter much when added to the two jars of real wine, right? And when the farmer saw the barrel was not completely full, he filled it up with a bit of water. After all, what difference would that little bit of water do to the three jars of real wine? And when they raised their glass in celebration, all four of them tasted only water but dared not to say anything lest they have to reveal their deceit. Thus they praised the drink for being quite a good wine...
The farmer would’ve asked for spirits, not wine. Wine was considered a cooking ingredient (as you can find on the shelves of any Asian grocery store even now), while hard liquor distilled from sourgum or other grains are highly priced celebratory drinks. People in some regions would seal a jug of spirit when a daughter is born, and keep that jug sealed and buried underground for safe keeping until her wedding day, and open it at the wedding banquet for the celebration. It is also much easier to adulterate spirits with water because both are colourless.
@@MsWinterlife It was told to me in Dutch by a family member, so I'm quite sure a lot of the details have been changed by the translation, his own personal flare & my summerizing of it. :D
Thank you for the information! I always enjoy hearing more about other cultures and practises, specially when it comes to things that change through time.
Asian stuff is pretty annoying!
So what's new ?
@@brega6286 Now they sell us dog chews made from toxic meat, shoes made by political prisoners, plastic or from polluted water fish, lead painted toys, fake eggs, stuffed animals sewn by children, and electronics that break in six months. But we LOVE their low prices!
Dr Lipscomb's enthusiasm for history is contagious.
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I would love to see her collab with Josh Gates! 😂
Her hair n eyes are more contagious!!!!
@GalaxyJazzGirl I would love to see her collab W/ ME!!!! LOL
Every one of the English history narrators are addicting to watch.
I actually had one of those spinal abscesses they talk about around 15:00. Mine unfortunately did reach the spinal cord and caused paralysis, but fortunately did not kill me. Of course, I was fortunate to live in the age of modern medicine so they were able to remove the abscess in surgery and after a month of rehabilitation I was able to walk again with a walker. Within another month, a cane. Within a few more months with no support. I still don't have everything I used to and never will, but I am very thankful to God for what I have. Most who get what I had are not so fortunate, and I was told it has a 25% mortality rate.
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How did you get it?
Wow! How did you get it, and did you know you had it?
God created this so don't thank the one that caused it
Ooooh God!!! So sorry that you had to go thru that mental and physical torture…good to know that ur doing ok now….STAY HEALTHY MY DEAR.
Imagine what we have in our homes right now that will be in a video like this in 100 years.
Natural gas on pilot lights, most likely. Electronic ignition isn't as bad. I don't think.
I think you can get by w induction and air fryer, but I'll need to see my electric bill first.
I don't have to imagine, I know that smartphones and social media are our downfall.
Processed food
Interesting thought "in 100 years" you stated in your comment as though there will be life the way we're heading... GL
Lol
It's amazing that any of us are even here, with everything our ancestors went through and survived.
The survivors were definitely lucky
Oh, that's cute, you think they don't still do this today.
We’re here because nature weeded out the weak
Reading only the first half of your comment, I thought you meant it’s amazing we’re all here watching a 3 hour video on deadly Victorian appliances.
@christine pettett Cute that you think it happens to the extent it has in the distant past. There are still issues yes but nowhere near as bad as before.
4 hours of deadly household appliances?? Ok. Lets get comfy.
Ba ha ha!
Yea fr
Chex Mix?
Try 5! Scissors
The earth is flat!!!
Suzannah has to be my favorite...narrator? Host? Whatever her title would be. I don't know why, but there's just something so incredibly engaging about the way she explains things.
The way she speaks is nice. It doesn't hurt that she's easy on the eyes either.
her hair is wonderful!
@@bootykingfaia yes, that's why I am here
you don't know why... 😏🤭
Because she’s absolutely gorgeous and smooth talking
Several hours of deadly appliances is just the content I need while doing home renovations
For god sakes don't watch Hoarders... Watching the first two episodes my girlfriend and I decided to take a closer look at our home and decided to move the refrigerator and clean it out....... Oh my God !😮😵💫😩🤮
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@@brianschmidt9919 Are you guys still together and did the fridge make it? I still can't teach my cat to shake
@@gigi9301hahahahahaah😂😂😂😂
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Not only could I watch the hostess all day but I could listen to her all day and never grow bored. She could be talking about the characteristics of the Tsetse fly’s parenting abilities and it’s like butter on toast. Who is she?
Suzannah Lipscomb
Shes also a host in the documentary about the great fire of london, and i believe a series about the tsars in russia.
Lust.
@@WinnyFoster Doctorate in history.
Produced and wrote the show.
Concur.
Is that laundry machine why we have the term "mangled"? Fascinating
Stephen King wrote a short story that he titled “The Mangler”, it is about a laundry machine that had some human blood dripped on it and it started killing people…
My grandmother had "servant stairs" in her old Victorian. The treads were narrow, the space was narrow, they were worn, and they went around a curve. Loved them as a child. Wouldn't go near them as a young adult.
Is there a way to upgrade them?
Michigan basements are just as lethal.
I had a set of these in my closet going up to my attic from my bedroom and I did fall down those stairs and barely missed hitting my head on a huge nail that was on the inside of the door that you could see when you were going down the stairs like I would have died if that happened.. it was bad enough that on my way down I broke an entire wood stair with my body in half. It hurt really bad. I fell down some carpeted stairs once too in my next house that were full size stairs but that's a day when I think I might have had a mini-stroke Kitty other medical event and it was really scary and had nothing to do with the stairs at all and everything to do with something going on in my body at that moment. I didn't just fall on the stairs I fell probably 40 times on and getting to the stairs from my room, and down them and to the front door; just getting to the front door where the mailman was was a nightmare. My landing spot was outside in the front yard after falling into bushes outside my front door and everything. I do have to say, that mailman was a piece of junk person, because he didn't even ask me if I was ok. And anyone with half a brain would have noticed that someone doing that Continental falling and being very upset and crying over it probably wasn't okay and probably needed medical attention. Or maybe I have MS or something like that as it's in some females in my family. But yeah those stairs sucked!!
@@kf10126 I hope you've been able to see your doctor❤ That sounds scary-I'm glad you're ok
I’ve toured some Victorian homes in the US with servant stairs. Very steep. Very dangerous. I got halfway up and then went back down. I’m not old, 30’a at the time, with hip problems anyways. So ya, not doing that at all
The fact that the manufacturers knew the dangers of radium, leaving their women vulnerable/susceptible, then _blaming_ the disastrous affects it had on the women is evil.
The sugar addiction we have today is unreal. There's processed sugar in virtually every processed food. It's no wonder our bodies crave it. That's another thing I cut out of my daily food intake. I've experienced dramatic changes in my body and wellbeing without it.
Pure misogyny that’s all it was, they just can’t get things done right so they blame
There's an amazing book called "The Radium Girls" that details the original court cases. I highly recommend it!
@@maneckineckbeard1749 thanks for letting me know!!
Why limit it to just women, now they have the Covid "vaccines"!
Well said comment, Brookie Girl.
My mom was electrocuted as a toddler by a cloth covered extension cord. All she did was drool on it because she was teething. She's lucky to have survived. This was in the 70s in a tiny town
That is wild!!
Such a great historical deep dive into the dangers around homes spanning centuries. Very educational & now I understand why doilies were such a big thing for my grandparents & great grandparents. I will definitely re-watch!
I have a friend who has a home that was built in 1845 and the stairs going to the second floor has the very narrow stairs and when you step on each stair you have to walk almost sideways going up and down quite scary. My grandfather and my dad died from mesothelioma, they both had retired from working in the boiler systems that heated schools
Can you pls explain ur dad symptoms. I'm always sick not like throwing up but always have a runny nose and always feeling like crap I also have hep c that I haven't treated. Idk why I haven't done it.
@@ronniewilliz153 get it treated,
Please take care of yourself, Ronnie 🙏🏼.
I’m
Mesothelioma has taken many from my loved ones. I worked with a hairdresser when I was in my youth that lost her husband, then she passed, and all 4 children eventually died from this cancer. Recently I lost my spiritual dad from the same cancer. So sad that it is still impacting so many to the use of asbestos. Many of the older homes I'm sure had this, and I used to live with them a few years. The home is no longer there...part of the redevelopment of an older community of Nashville, West Nashville (the Nations) is slowly being destroyed and turned into the generic subdivisions common here. So sad really. I don't go there anymore...too heartbreaking for me. I don't do change well! Gentrification my arse. My Grannie was a hairdresser and I remember her electric permanent wave machine! By the time I was born in the early 1960's it was no longer used, but she did give me a personal demonstration without chemicals or electricity of course. It was horrible! And she still had the old curling irons too. I recall having a friend in Little Rock in the 1980's, that had her own black beauty shop and they still used the irons that were heated then used to straighten and curl their client's hair! I wonder if that is still a thing for the African American beauty shops?
This is a great video. The things others went through for us now to call it “common sense” is amazing. All the knowledge we can learn from this … I love it.
Watch the original shows. They're longer. Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home, the Edwardian Home , the 1940s House....
Absolute history is also another great channel, but I’m sure you watch it already.
Fake history, flat earth
1:15:19 .. cringe 🤣
I look at the length of this and thought there’s no way I’m gonna watching all this right now but every time I go to switch it off another interesting danger comes up. Such a cool idea for a series.
Brilliant narration and solid research. I only wish the episodes were arranged chronologically...
1:15:19 .. cringe 🤣
The victorian era always creeps me out. Something about it, especially Victorian england is just creepy.
A video like this pushes the worst. The modern era would creep you out if they mentioned the thousands of modern things we live with and consume that is killing us. Pasteurized milk, pesticides, 5G, microwaves, plastic clothing, shots, blue light, et cetera.
Too many horror movies and Jack the ripper 😂
@Stephdk-k4x the edwardian, up to around 1920 even is just creepy.
I agree. A very dark time during the long reign of the bizzare Queen Victoria. I got obsessed with reading so much about this time and it's shocking.
@@jujumulligan43 just imagine being lost in London, alone, circa 1878.
I’ve noticed recently on a British show A&E..that the stairways in the homes where accidents have happened are still quite narrow and steep. It amazes me there aren’t more injuries from the dangerous steps.
I have a phobia about freaky stairs especially curving ones. Even in my dreams. I have been in various homes with tiny features and castles with odd curvy ones...also a recurring memory of climbing the Statue of Liberty stairs..I was under age 4.
In the Netherlands we also suffer from the old narrow stairs. Last week I got a tip 'for having to walk all these stairs' while delivering an order 🤣
we also don’t wear as many long layers anymore! and flat shoes.. makes it a little easier :))
To watch this as people in my country cry for deregulation and claiming that companies will do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing is terrifying. These are the "good old days" they think they remember-a time where companies would kill thousands to save a dollar. I fear the day where deregulation really takes hold.
Yeah, because having your customers dying in droves is SO good for business! What an ignorant statement. Companies don't intentionally create bad publicity for themselves because in a free market economy the consumers will choose another brand. Regulations are barriers to entry into a given market. They reduce the number of players in the market thus leading to fewer choices for consumers and even to monopolies. When consumers have no choice - as with anything the government provides- then the providers are free to make inferior and dangerous products. Regulation does little to nothing to make products safer. It just makes them more expensive.
Yeah, because having your customers dying in droves is SO good for business
@@chadettwein7667 someone didn't even watch the video lol. A lot of the older products, especially food, was intentionally adulterated with harmful products for the sole reason of making a bigger profit.
@@chadettwein7667 companies kill their customers all the time because the payout to their families is cheaper than fixing the product for thousands or millions of people. And that’s still happening today it’s not a historical argument.
@@cassandra5011I think he was being sarcastic only.
1:15:20 The look on her face after the woman tells her about one particular alternate use for the "device" .🤣🤣
“300 or so children died every year, and thats just not something we would tolerate today” we tolerate much worse today
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So true
Exactly, no one even cares when you mention that 800,000 American children alone go missing each year. Millions, world wide are sold into human trafficking. Since they're not talking about it on TV few care.
But we don’t tolerate it happening to white “normal” children in first world countries. Everyone else we still don’t care about
You really think that was the worst thing going on back then 😂
The part that blows my mind, one day, they’ll be making documentaries on the things we’ve used!
Those small metal rectangular devices cause the dead of millions...😢😂😢
Electric cars
It has never stopped or changed. Just one example is children's playthings, play grounds and the things we did our parents wouldn't have thought twice about. Just in the 50 years I've been alive. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Alaska, moved to a small city, then to Denver then to a small ranch town in Wyoming. City people don't let thier kids do things kids do here. It's to dangerous, but people here don't let thier kids run around the big city, to many crazy people. But we ride horses, drive 4 wheelers, side by sides, tractors, farm equipment, use tools, drive, change irrigation before 12yrs old. But still we don't let them do the things we did, our parents, our grandparents. We make the decisions to use products as adults and in America turn around and file lawsuit on anything we don't like. Even thou we made the decision. Life will always change, inventions, products, and in 100 years we will say the same thing. People who say why would they do that, why do u do what your doc tells u too. Why do u buy that make up, why do u take weight loss stuff that kills your heart, why do u trust a self driving car? Because u of vanity and WANT of the newest best. Nothing has changed. Just the Era. And communication. Just like crime and serial killers and school shootings. In America we've always had ALL of these, nothing has changed other than we have the ability to know everything about it within 10 seconds of it happening. Before u didn't know what happened outside your area and it took a month before u did. U didn't know what was bad for you. We had to learn as a species and humans always learn the hard way because we believe we are superior. My dog learns what hurts it faster than people will acknowledge what's bad for them. This will always be. It's no differant than tourists and travelers going to Yellowstone national park in Wyoming that never lived around the wild. And they ask when the animals are caged up so they can camp😂. Or each year several get impaled and stomped by a bison they try to take a picture or or pet or put thier young child on thier back😮. Rarely do you find a human that has the respect for the earth and all of its dangers, electricity, gas's, elements, natural chemicals, water, the power of mother nature is greater than any one of us, and we will never be able to harness it and not be in danger. So don't go thinking we are better or smarter than our ancestors. We are doing the same exact shit in a more advanced smug way!
And yes I'm one of them, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting under my aluminum awning, on my wood and concrete porch, with my energy drink, on my mobile phone commenting to people all over the world getting ready to drive to the fuel station in my car then go pick up the meds my doctor told me to take at the pharmacy!!!! We will never change! I'd rather be a dog lol😂
I could listen to Nathan Goss talk all day. He has a very calming voice that is pleasant to the ear.
Its the guy who's been using borax?
Yes!
My daughter had a two story home from the mid 1800s. The stairs were beautiful but also straight up.. or down. I wear a US size 7 shoe and my foot was longer than the steps were wide.
Incredible video, highly educational. It took me several settings to watch the entire thing, but I'm glad I did. Thank you.
In the early 1950’s radium was put into pellets attached to a medical device, forced into the nostrils as far as the sinus cavities. This was to burn’ polyps out of the sinus cavities and prevent allergy symptoms. I had 6 of these painful treatments as a child and developed ovarian cancer in the 1980’s, probably due to the radioactivity received. The word ‘iatrogenic’ loosely means ‘doctor induced’ illness.
@Fran Rogers-Sundberg and nosocomial infections are infections picked up during a hospital stay. I worked with more than just a few very sloppy residents in a teaching hospital. The majority are VERY careful, but you do have some that could care less.
I love how every time they found something new, they started to use it on everything and immedtly.
They started to eat it, bathed on it, painted their walls and clocks with it... Not even second thinking that there might be something dangerous about it. No, just let your kids play with it and maybe after 50 years find that it kills everything it touches.
The REALLY stupid part is that Edison (who wouldn't gaf, as proved by Topsy) and the Curies KNEW. Or certainly had to suspect why they were sick.
Both Curies had issues from radiation. Pierre got killed by a carriage after problems w weak legs. Marie lived longer.
How many here today though leaped for the stupid untested and lightening- quick and hyped 'vax' without looking, no independent inquiry? Its already taken far more souls than all these items in this series. And we've ( not me) only just begun.
@@renegadetenor No dumbass that was covid.
@@renegadetenor absurd comment. Google what happened in the days before vaccines. People would’ve given anything to stop common lethal diseases. Google what happened when the polio vaccine was released - people lined up IMMEDIATELY for it. Know why? Because they’d seen pain and disability and death by disease for generations without any chance of stemming the tide and increasing their chances of survival. Google what happened with small pox. In the 1700’s in America, they didn’t have vaccines. They had “inoculations”. Aka they cut your skin and infected you with small pox and then hoped you survived. If you did? You had just been vaccinated against the disease. Ben Franklin didn’t get his son inoculated and he ended up contracting the illness fully and died as a result. Even way back in the 1700’s, when THAT was your form of protection, Ben Franklin said he’d wished he had done it because his son would’ve had a chance to survive. We have a century of science showing how lucky we’ve been to eradicate disease via vaccines. Know who would’ve given anything for a vaccine during a pandemic? Literally every other generation that ever existed and was virtually wiped out by pandemics. Ask people who contracted the Spanish flu during the last major pandemic if they’d have preferred chancing it or taking the damn vaccine. I’d put money on them lining up for the damn shot, too, instead of being so obtuse they’d choose certain death over preventing their own demise and that of their loved ones. What a privileged and ignorant notion that vaccines aren’t a goddamn miracle.
That's human nature though.... jump in, think later.... The worst part is when they cover up the danger.... and they still do that.... human nature... for profit!!!... It's amazing we survive!!
A quick thank you to all my ancestors who lived long enough to get me here
Cute comment. 💖
Amen!!
Amen to that!
You are welcome laddie.
Brilliant series,not only do you hear tales of Victorian life,but you get to see the inventions,i thought the look at me & what i have culture started with social media related to the smartphone,no the Victorians were the original trend setters,the Doc is a nice addition to these Victorian tale's 🇮🇪
I've seen segments of this documentary, but it's really eally nice to have it all together in one video. Thank you!
Try the actual history hit TH-cam channel they bought the rights to this video. Amazing how many people put this and many of their videos up with monetization on here.
@@michimelody4036 you do realize this is a BBC documentary and to most of the world it's free?
@@meghanmcintosh135 Monitization means commercials, even the BBC runs commercials!
@@michimelody4036 TH-cam is making millionaires out of kids. The most successful TH-camr is a 9yo bringing in 26 million dollars a year.
@Meghan McIntosh it's free for everyone. Monetization is paid for through advertisements, not viewers. There are hundreds, probably thousands of millionaires thanks to TH-cam.
I'm surprised my gran ever lived through all this. I guess it's a good thing my family was poor then
No one deserves to be punished, tortured, or degraded for being poor. Your ancestors suffered in vain...you still live in a society that thrives off of slavery and genocide.
@@we8608 the sad reality.
The audio team deserves an award for this show. Maybe they got it, maybe not. I just think they deserve it.
I don't normally watch something this long, but this is incredibly interesting!!!!
The episode about electricity immediately made me think of the scene in Disney's Carousel of Progress in WDW where the house had been newly wired for electricity. It has those light socket adapters leading to all sorts of appliances, and when the dad demonstrates how great they all are, it blows a fuse and ends up sending the whole neighborhood into darkness. lol
It reminded me of National Lampoons and the Christmas lights. 😂
@@drunkenpancakes Nuclear auxiliary power: ON. 😂
What's horrific is what Edison did to elephants and stray dogs to demonstrate how electricity worked. Horrible, disgusting thief, cruel and sick human being. 😢
It's incredible that electricity was new and strange merely 100 years ago.
I wonder what our great-grandchildren will say about our time, about things that we consider awesome and new and must-have and that will prove to be dangerous in a few years...
next will be the newest vaccines
@@lenisnorre1441 wish you lived somewhere else
I would say bioengineering. They'll likely think we were backwards for wanting to rely on luck of the genetic dice roll.
Look at Vaping
@@emslady77 vaping and smoking are things only done by the very very bottom of the socioeconomic classes. Its very very odd to see someone doing either unless they are very very low class.
This channel is amazing! High quality great content!
Honestly when my grandmother died as a kid I kind of didn't think that much of it other than "she was sick". But as I got older I found out it was from asbestos as a result of her working at a company called "kellwood" way back when. And before she died there was a big class action lawsuit in motion against them and it's been going on for about 10 plus years now. And only just recently as of December of last year were we contacted by a lawyer about payment.
sorry you and your family had to go through that. im glad you are able to contact them about a payment but my god 10 years! how exhausting and time consuming for victims. blessings to your family
Oh’ what tangled Webb they weaved when practicing to deceive,Englands poor whites were treated like black people here in America 😊😊so so sad
Hey maybe by the time they've finished litigating it there might be a few dollars left over for the actual victims after the attorneys fees. For more information Google anything about Howard hughes's estate being probated
I LOOOOOVE watching these series. Absolutely fascinating. I did English Studies as my BA about 11 years ago), I'm a European, and I just love love watching this.
Just imagine all the ppl who had to die in order for the safety regulations and inventions to be put into place in order for us to be comfortable and safer. Now imagine all the ones that we don’t yet know about and have yet to be created
Because of that, they did not die in vain. They sacrificed themselves unknowingly and unintentionally, which saved us from going through the disasters ourselves.
Gas stoves w pilot lights, probably. B/c gas is always burning.
I'd say noise, too. I think the constant noise of most areas makes people nutty.
Plus isolation that exacerbates the crazy.
I hope they make an updated modern day version of this called Hidden Killers of the Modern Day Home so they can include non stick pans with PFAS, titanium dioxide, artificial food dyes, things of that nature.
Not to mention the meds we take and even some bath and cleaning products.
Not to mention improved life spans, lifestyle diseases and road traffic collisions and gun violence.
Imagine all the bad shit in the products we eat from stores. It's sad you can't even trust what you put in your system over corporate greed and profit. It's unfortunate that the world even has to operate that way 😔
And yet corporations still try to skirt regulations and even have regulations removed so they can make more money at the cost of public health. It is a sad reality.
I agree 💯🗣️
My aunt used to regularly poison the family with Thanksgiving turkeys. They finally convinced her to stop. She was stuffing it the night before cooking. The stuffing had eggs in it but didn't get thoroughly cooked (very dark brown outside, maybe just warm inside).
Oof, nasty! At least she didn't put alkaline powder inside to make it go down more smoothly like they did with the milk.
This is particularly why I always do stuffing in a separate pan rather than actually in the turkey. It’s just too hard to make sure it’s fully cooked otherwise.
Ol aunty was poisoning everyone, hope she doesn't have an account😂😂😂
Dr. Lipscomb is absolutely gorgeous and quite engaging with her knowledge and enthusiasm for history.
You know she's a history doctorate. Wrote and produced the show.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
Yes. What I mean is some presenters with excellent credentials are not engaging and come across as slightly boring even when presenting things they are passionate about. Dr. Lipscomb is not boring at all with her presentation. I don't see how that's confusing. Cheers
Perhaps this has been said previously in the comments, but, this seems to explain why we were taught as children to stop, drop, and roll if we caught on fire. I guess it used to be common.
Our ancestors have suffered a lot for us, having that thought makes me feel guilty but thankful where we’ve come now
2:43:46
You feel guilty because they were promiscuous, caught syphilis, became outcast, but yet brought syphilis home to infect their family?
They suffered, not for us.
Don't worry, the crap you're consuming today is paying the debt.
@@aicerg
Your statement wonderfully makes sense. (Edit grammar)
It’s still happening
My mom was born in the 40s, in Hawaii. They used one of those roller washers. She got her arm stuck in it one day, but luckily for her, in the 40s, the roller washer came with some safety guards. I think her arm was almost broken, but not mangled.
I also wanted to add that a black man named Lewis Howard Latimer discovered the filaments for electric light and Edison took from those discoveries and went on to light homes.
Tesla invented a few of Edison's claimed inventions.
I often wonder how many inventions were actually invented by Black people, and White people just took credit for.
Edison was a bastard.
Edison is a cringy evil imposter. 😈 he didn't invent anything but coming folks and he needs to not be known as the inventor we are forced to believe.
@Erin Krabill it's amazing how many things where created from the minds of anybperson of color including but not limited to Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian; that has been taken over by greedy white men.
I see little to no difference in the way corporations treat consumers today, whether it's adding micro plastics to our food to raise the price, or selling useless or faulty appliances without proper testing, the consumer is just dollar signs to them with no accountability
I find many products difficult to open and faulty further in time. Lack of testing .
agreed they are just able to lie about it better
It has always been that way and will always be that way. People are against government regulation, and in a lot of ways I can see why. At the same time, those regulations inhibit greedy a-holes from being greedy a-holes. Deregulation of the financial sector lead to the 2006 recession.
My great-grandmother was killed by an early Maytag washing machine. It had a long belt going to a gasoline engine and her long hair got caught in it. My grandpa's brother found her (it had nearly decapitated her) and had nightmares for the rest of his life.
Holly shit , that’s horrible !
Horrendous... so sorry to hear of this family tragedy... prayers
The house it happened in is still standing and said to be haunted.@@lillaanafortier8525
My condolences I am so sorry to hear that
@@katlynvinson8879 She supposedly haunts the house my great-grandad built.
I live in the States and I absolutely love these shows. I love everything about England🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 that's the #1 thing on my bucket list. Visit England.
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May I ask what part of the states are you from?
Used to be known as the United States...never were and the divide grows with each second.
Interesting and informative, thank you for helping share historical knowledge.
Very good and informative video. Was a good watch.
However it is worth noting that there are times in the video where the music is way too loud. You can't even hear what is being said properly.
My heat was out during a very nasty cold snap. It made me really appreciate when my ancestors had to warm up a BRICK to warm their bed. And getting out of your warm bed to face real cold is exhausting. No wonder we only lived to be 40-something.
As a Builder including many Stairs this isn't something I feel I need to watch but my God the well spoken intelligent, Beautiful, Blond Presenter makes me want to loop this all day long on weekends!
Are there more like her in England?
did you noticed how Goss's eyes shining when he is talking about deaths? and it appears that he is smiling at that moments
I love that every line of his is like the end of the world. I want a whole channel dedicated to just him reading fairy tales--punctuating the end of every paragraph with something like "That's nit goot atoll... They'll all goin' to dae *sniff*"
Pressure Cookers are one of the most dangerous appliances around, yes they are someone safer than they once we're but I've never allowed one in my home. I'm a Retired Nurse in the ED, they are no joke!!
Watched one explode. Neighbor making Mason jar fruit. She turned away as it burst, her robe and kitchen covered in fruit. Oven she was working on was destroyed, along with hood vent and cabinet above.
I make my own mushroom substrate with them and will only use the og German or Japanese ones. And I only use it in my detached garage. 22 years no accidents but I’ve seen first hand the damage they can do when one went off at a co growers inoculation station. He’s blind in one eye and missing a large part of his jaw and has a huge scar on his chest where a chunk of metal entered his body. But he’s alive. He just slow steams in a sealed plastic tub now.
My dad died from asbestos. In his case he was an Ordinance officer in the American Army. They used to wrap the explosives and weapons in asbestos for safety.
my grandpa died in '90 from asbestos. he was a construction worker at Kodak and breathed in. doctor found his lung cancer at stage iv.
I could listen to the way dr Kate Williams talks for hours. She sounds so passionate I can’t help but be too
I love suzy, this was the first video I watched her in and I come back again at least once a year. I always get so excited when I see her in other videos... love it when she pops up when I am rewatching time team episodes 😊
1:15:19 .. cringe 🤣
What an amazing video. Very well put together! I'm glad I found this channel!!
Gives a whole different meaning to "Back in my day"
Sorry, this may be off topic, but Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb is an extraordinarily beautiful woman.
Great documentary by the way. The Tudor Home part of this documentary was my personal favorite.
i ABSOLUTELY LOVE her presentations!
This is the most fascinating and horrifying and eye opening series
I'm baffled anyone would hop into a metal tub heated by gas and not think it might get REALLY HOT.
'Safety regulations are written in blood'
she's honestly my favorite presenter from the history channel
goddamn that photo of the two kids holding each other is devastating.
Where? Time stamp? 00:00 ex
around 7:38@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
Yup...made me feel for them, though long dead they be...
I love watching her content entertaining very informative and absolutely beautiful
I've watched this in different episodes. Loving this as a 4 hr special
Very good and informative I will definitely watch again. Not only is Suzannah intelligent and soft spoken but beautiful too! We never had any televisions catch fire like in the video, when I was a kid but I did see a few along with a few of the old tube style radios. Asbestos mining is still done in Russia and the miners have a short life expectancy.
Yes Suzanne reads from a script very well.
@@dianeatkinson2253 Whether she is using a script or not to me doesn't matter. What does matter is if she can deliver a message and hold her audience's attention.
Well she's a historian so she does know her history. Not just "reading a script." Women need to lift each other up, not tear each other down. 🤦♀️
@@dianeatkinson2253 She often wrote the show, and produced it. And she's a doctorate in history.
She's no bimbo.
@@dianeatkinson2253 Jealous much?
Sadly even today it can be challenging or nearly impossible to regulate harmful particulars or items that humans and animals are exposed to as so many things today are simply labeled as modern or helpful even healthful.
This is still happening today in our homes. Majority of the products in our homes are very toxic and causing chronic diseases and we don't even know
Exactly, the smartphones in everyone's hands are weaponized against us.
Like what?
@@Dillybar777, Wifi aka Why Fry for one, Parfum, that is in most household products, and all processed foods. Americans are openly being fed and given these things to dumb us, and make us sick.
Like Ammoniac vetyperod haircolor, toxic waterbottel were is microplastic,our cooking pots with aluminium or teflon wich goes in ur body when broken, and i dont even go with food adatives with E codes, hormones chancing shampoos, wifis/5g,i could go on and on 😂
@@Dillybar777like paranoia and conspiracy theories lol. Those are the silent killers
I can’t help but wonder if the term mangle/mangled wasn’t partially influenced by the damage cause from mangle.
This was so fascinating and well put together. The narrator is great:)
1:15:19 .. cringe 🤣
Bought my first house at 22 yrs old back in 1989. Was run down and 100 yrs old. Lead paint, asbestos, leaky basement, electric wiring from the 1930's. Boiler was installed in 1945. Was a death trap. I survived.
The whole place sounds like it was a deathtrap, I've lived in old houses before and I lived quite comfortably
Susannah Lipscomb is an absolute gem. Effortlessly & naturally beautiful, intelligent, well educated, well rounded, and well spoken. I could listen to her for hours! Such a pleasant voice. It would be great if she would do book narrations, especially on some of the most beloved classics. Pride and Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women... She *absolutely* would do them justice. ***Edit: Just found out that she does narration on a book she authored, "A Visitor's Companion to Tudor, England" and partial narration on a book she co-authored with Helen Carr, " What is History, Now?" both historical non-fiction and just from the preview I know we need to hear some fiction narrations from her! Someone try to make it happen, PLEASE!!! 🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻
Having a snot dot is not a sign of well rounded
Judgmental much?
This is why I think British people are extremely fascinating
@@gbh5912 What's a snot dot?
1:15:19 .. cringe 🤣
Dr. Lipscomb 🎉 It’s actually a miracle that the whole Victorian and then Edwardian generations somehow survived after that mortal graveyards, as their top notch “luxurious” family places appeared to be in fact.
I think what i like the most is , your a human and narrator.
Im soooooo tired of everyone using A.I. narration. Its rediculous.
So your a comforting break from that.
Yeah, I totally agree.
I've got a servant's staircase in my house (1900, SAV GA) and my landlord blocked it off for safety and storage. It's only about 2ft wide with a grade that takes the main staircase (which is also steep enough for myself and even my cat to fall down) 2 landings to traverse. I previously lived in a 1940's house built to emulate the 1920's and the stairs were so steep that even as an avid hiker I couldn't walk down the stairs without my ankles popping. That house also gas gas heaters set into the walls of each bathroom lmao
I could watch and listen to this woman for the rest of my life. Daaaaammn
She's no doubt half the reason I click, maybe 75% of the reason.
All out of lust.
100 years from now, people will be watching a video about all the crazy stuff that we're doing right now.
pink sauce 😭
They will will still be searching for things that were in 2023...BUILT(BUILD) BACK BETTER.....still don't know what that means.....
Me watching the section about borax in milk and being horrified there's a trend in 2023 of people adding borax to their food for "health" reasons.
The Victorians really took one for the team didn’t they
Honestly sitting here paying my respects to all the people who died from good intentions and lack of knowledge…they are the sole reasons we live the way we do.
It amazes me how a freakishly easy and freakishly complicated it is to kill a human being
This was very entertaining! Thank you for the video and I wish you all a lovely day!
Aptly named “The Mangle”. One of my grandmother’s six sisters had some of her long hair and part of her scalp ripped off by an electric version of this contraption. However, how in the heck did heads get successfully mangled up in the original Mangle? Reminds me of stuff from an Indiana Jones flick.😮
I saw something like that on a demo for a car serpentine belt when a woman got scalped. She lived, but the demo was great :) "Stuff you wanted to see, but not w your stuff."
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Glad she lived. Is it wrong to want to see what the belt can do?😬
Lol, my brother and sister and I totally fell up and down and shoved each other up and down “standardized stairs” our entire childhoods. Science and safety can’t compete with bored brats!🤣🤣🤣
My cousins and I used to surf down the stairs on cardboard or in sleeping bags 😄
@@caseyn7902 That’s awesome!😊
My husband and I recently discovered that one of the steps, I think the fourth or fifth one up from the bottom, leading to our second story townhouse is narrower than the rest, maybe by about 1.5-2 inches. It’s not super dramatic but it’s enough to catch you off guard and trip you up. I’ve definitely slipped on it a few times, both going up and down, and I’ve even completely slid down the last few steps and bruised my whole body because I got tripped up on the stupid thing. And our building really isn’t that old. I think it was built sometime in the 1980’s. But since noticing it, I’ve become hyper aware of it when I’m going up and down the stairs, especially if I’m carrying something like the laundry basket and can’t use the railing. Even the maintenance girl who’s been working here for many years and has come in our particular unit numerous times over the years hadn’t ever noticed it until we pointed it out. It just goes to show that even 100+ years later, we still encounter the same problems due to builders either cutting corners or just plain laziness and carelessness. Even though we’ve known the perfect equation for safe stairs for well over 100 years, some builders still seem to miss things or even intentionally cut corners to save time or money.
The craziest part is that this is something that was going on ALL the way back then, and people knew how dangerous this stuff was.
Things are no better today. I bought a CE-marked lamp. When I came home, it did not work (the electric system was malfunctioning). So I went back and had it replaced with a new one. That seemed to work, but shortly after, dust kept appearing on my table. When I checked the lamp a month after I bought it, half of the the socket for the light bulb had crumbled away. The lamp was fatal to use, so I discarded it.
I also bought a kettle. It lasted a year, then it started malfunctioning and I had to stop using it.
NEVER BUY ANYTHING WITH A CE-MARK ON! It is deadly dangerous.
They didn't know.
although the dangers of asbestos became very well known and documented, it was still widely used in construction materials up until the 1980s because of its fire retarding properties, and because they struggled to find adequate alternatives. It was also commonly used in brake pads for cars and trucks. Whole new materials had to be invented to replace asbestos. It is however still used in some firefighting gear as heat protection
The important thing I took from this is.... if it isn't broke, don't try to fix it. Asbestos is so widely spread it's literally impossible to eliminate it without making it a deadly problem. Leave it alone, unless there's no other choice!! Better to seal it in where it is. It would be great to go back in time and never invent this stuff... but that would be true of a lot of things!! 🙄
Oh, mangles scare me!! I had a teacher who had a terribly deformed (mangled?) hand, due to getting it caught in a mangle when she was a little girl! Scary, awful things!
Bread is my favorite appliance
Me too 😂
I think most people don't realize how lucky they are to be living in this day & age.
Until 50 years from now when they make a documentary on why people in our days had so much cancer, mental illnesses and weight problems.. It might be worst then. I don’t know I’m just wondering.
@@anaiscoulin202could be 😳
Yeah if we could finally stop the war & conflicts most of us would be fine
@@MadGamerRus ya, it's pretty sad, man is so smart but such a greedy creature 🤢
@@MadGamerRus Peace and prosperity are not a natural state of the human existence. There was always conflict between people and that is not about to change, not when war is such a profitable business.
I can 100% attest to the stairs thing!!! My house here in Iowa was designed and built in 1905 (then burned down and was rebuilt from the same plans and same materials in 1913). It has a service stair and a grand stair. I always prefer the grand stairs. It's a much more comfortable step versus the much narrower, much steeper, NO rail service stairs that go to the kitchen. At the top of them there is also small room with a supply cupboard that was separated from the rest of the upstairs by a door.
I love this...
"I didn't waste time at work! I was being proactive in my awareness of my surroundings"
6:28 Gives new meaning to your food sitting like a lead brick
I have a bucket of plaster of Paris in my craft room and I cannot imagine putting this in any type of food and especially bread!!! This is just totally insane!!!!!
Who loops this program so they have no interruptions during their sleep/relax time?
Her voice is so soothing I love these videos to fall asleep to
Had looked at a home to purchase that was built in 1890’s. The stairs to the attic were so steep, they looked almost like a ladder.
“Stairs are quite dangerous”, don’t gotta tell me twice. Doctor told my mom that I had 0 chance of survival when I split my skull open falling down the stairs back when I was a toddler.
Miracle I’m here today, learning about the dangers of homes lmao