Jobs That No Long Exisist

Woman who worked emptying chamber pots.

People who dug up dead bodies and sold them to medical schools

Helped manage multiple switches and levers by hand to ensure all trains were moving in the right direction.

Worked at a bowling ally setting up pins during the game.

These men helped move logs from the forest to the sawmill on river systems.

People who were hired to fan the fire in alchemists shops.

These people were employed to light street lamps

Worked in offices typing documents on typewriters.

Young boys who would make tea for others at work

Young men on warships who stuffed gunpowder into cannons.

This person pressed buttons to help you go where you wanted

Woman who worked to connect long distance call and directed communication.

Between the world wars there were acoustic mirror devices that were used to help army’s detect enemy radar

Woman who would calculate numbers all day long by hand.

People who would measure a child’s intelligence based on the shape of your head.

Would handsaw blocks of ice from lakes or rivers to help store cold food

People who went around winding public clocks

These people read news and literature outloud to employees at offices in the 1920's

People who acted as alarm clocks by shooting peas or tapping on windows so people did not oversleep.

Someone who dug out and removed human waste from privies and cesspits.

A person who washed cloths by hand.

Towing river and canal boats

These people used a hot metal typesetting system to produce newspapers.

Was in charge of screaming important news from street corners — a tradition dating back all the way to the 18th century.

These were men who went door to door cleaning chimneys

Someone who created objects from copper.

This person delivered cow liquid to your home.

A railroad worker who maintained the tracks.

Sold eggs and other poultry products at markets

Worked at video entertainment companies in the '90s to collect and package film canisters to be stored or shipped.