Los crafts throughout the world they varied over the years, especially from the technology advancementwhich caused some professions to cease to exist or begin to be replaced.
Some were eliminated directly because they were considered «ridiculous», while other works were done using various machines.
However, some jobs considered strange are still remembered which in ancient times were very popular and seemed normal.
What are the 10 old jobs that were popular, but not anymore
- Daguerreotypist: He was a photographer who used the daguerreotype, the first photographic procedure, with which he developed the first images in the mid-19th century.
- Cake placer: person who manually placed the pins in their correct position after each throw, collected the balls and removed the fallen pins.
- Dairy: In the 1950s, he was in charge of delivering bottles or jugs full of milk every morning, punctually.
- Lector: He was hired to attend places such as factories and entertain workers by reading works of fiction or news.
- Ice makers: They manually broke blocks of ice from lakes and rivers to preserve cold food and also delivered them to homes.
This is what the milkman’s job was like before.- Powder Boys: They served on the crew of warships during navigation and were in charge of carrying gunpowder from the hold to the cannons during combat.
- Coal Children: They worked in coal mining, a dangerous and common practice in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Log drivers: They transported logs of wood downriver to move them from the forests to the sawmills.
- Linotype operator: He operated a linotype machine, a machine invented in the 19th century that automated the composition of text for the printing press.
- From the Telegraph: They played a key role in sending and receiving messages by telegraph through the use of Morse code.
This was the job of a telegrapher.
