The Edwardian Inventions That Turned Normal Homes Into Death Traps | Hidden Killers | Timeline

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  @amandab.recondwith8006 · 2 years ago

  I grew up in a big Edwardian home built in 1906. It had cloth-covered wire electricity, asbestos paint, and all sorts of harmful things that my father had to have removed at great expense. But it was a beautiful house with lavish mohogany woodwork, parquet floors and huge bedrooms for five children, parents, and a suite for my grandmother. The house still exists in all its glory, with another family living there. I miss my childhood home. But it was full of Edwardian dangers.

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  @FunSizeSpamberguesa · 8 years ago

  My favorite person she consults is the Welsh guy who always seems so delighted by dangerous stuff and gruesome deaths. He'd probably be a legitimately fun person to have a drink with.

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  @Bamboule05 · 2 years ago

  I lived in an old house for quite some time. It was not renovated since I guess before the second WW, and I didn't mind. But after watching this video, I noticed green colour under three layers of paint, I knew some electrical wires were still wrapped in cloth ( I never used those), and I started wondering about asbestos. There was a gas leakage but the landlord never reacted to my complaints. When a repairman came to fix the museal gas stove, he could smell the gas, too,  he told me I' m probably just still alive because the windows were so drafty. So I moved out of that beloved house, and learnt the next tennant that moved in had died 6 months later...

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  @stan.rarick8556 · 7 years ago (edited)

  My great-grandmother (b.1860, d. 1963) thought that the greatest invention  of her lifetime was not the car, nor airplane,  nor electricity nor refrigeration, but rather the window screen.

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  @kev3d · 6 years ago

  People were so dumb back then. &nbsp;<br>-Takes a huge drag off a vape pen and chugs an energy drink

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  @MrRobinhalligan · 3 years ago

  I Saw an video on the court case trying to get compensation for the Radium Girls, and it chilled me how the defending company kept delaying actions going keeping things out of court till they had all died.

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• ER

  @erichlawrence4142 · 7 years ago

  Tanning beds will definitely be one of our killers.

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  @kristinawolfemusic · 7 years ago

  Hidden killers of the ancient roman home: cloaked enemies, tigers hiding under gladiator floors, mt. vesuvius, asbestos

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  @MegaAstroFan18 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s never about making the people of the past look dumb, it&apos;s about simply reflecting on mistakes that were made.

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  @DanielleGarnica · 7 years ago

  Well dang seems the Edwardians might have needed some financial compensation for their and their loved one&apos;s mesothelioma

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  @Christa_Loves · 7 years ago

  A hundred years from now someone is going to make a documentary like this about the early 2000s and we&apos;re all going to look like a bunch of imbeciles too.

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  @malcolmwilkinson4449 · 4 years ago

  I retired as a Chartered Electrical Engineer recently after spending 45 years in the power industry dealing with voltages up to 400,000 Volts. It still surprises me just how ignorant of the dangers of electricity most people still are😡 . If you aren’t qualified to deal with electricity DONT mess with it!

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