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The Human Alarm Clocks of the Industrial Revolution!
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Before alarm clocks existed, knocker-uppers had the job of waking people up for work. They would go around with heavy stick and knock on their clients' doors or windows to wake them up for work. In return, the knocker-uppers were paid a few cents a week.
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Makes sense as to where the term "knocked up" came from...
how did the knocker uppers wake up on time?
@victorviereck6476
Ай бұрын
Sleep early probably
@pavaralam
Ай бұрын
They had their own knocker uppers
@MrBeard17
Ай бұрын
cocaine
@electricshoes
Ай бұрын
they sleep in the morning and daytime?
@stephenl6758
Ай бұрын
@@pavaralamthen the knocker upper-knocked uppers had their own knocker uppers, who in turn had their own knocker uppers, an so on, until it was discovered that the knocker uppers were a closed loop, self sustaining economy of people paying each other to be their knocker uppers
5 more minutes. Sir, nooo!
They were paid pennies, not cents!
Rooster: they took our jobb
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