People Used to Get Knocked Up for Work… Literally

Описание: Before Alarm Clocks, People Paid This Woman to Wake Them Up

Before alarm clocks were common, people actually hired human alarm clocks—called knocker-uppers—to wake them up for work.
Armed with long poles, pea shooters, or even rubber hoses, they’d tap on windows to make sure you didn’t oversleep.

This episode of @ReheatedHistory explores the bizarre world of Victorian-era wake-up calls, the last professional knocker-upper Mary Smith, and the moment machines finally took their jobs.

Sources:
BBC News – “The people who woke up workers in the days before alarm clocks”
Historic UK – “The Knocker Up – the Human Alarm Clock”
Rare Historical Photos – “Knocker-uppers in Britain, 1900–1941”
Museum of London Archives – Public domain photos of knocker-uppers

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