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

People were so dumb back then. -Takes a huge drag off a vape pen and chugs an energy drink

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

I can only imagine some 50~100 years from now a similar situation with them looking at Li-Ion batteries, vapes and all kinds of medical processes and medications just wondering how we even survived this era.

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.

That is the politest description of a vibrator I've ever heard 😂

This makes me glad my grandfather was very old fashioned. He was also very good at inventing his own energy sources and ways of doing plumbing.

The Radium watch factories continued to operate till 1978!!! When finally demolished, the building materials was used to fill-in road holes, and distribute the radiation everywhere. If you plan to visit Ottawa, IL, make sure to take with you a Geiger Muehler counter.

Imagine dying from a vintage vibrator.

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!

I love her videos! She should do so much more. She is a great narrator and her videos are so interesting and keep the audience captivated.

I love how in 16:50 they danced around trying not to say that "massage machine" is an early vibrator

Two words... Absolutely. Lethal.

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

Someone help this poor lady- she's mixed her Xanax with alcohol, wandered away from her cocktail party down the road, and ended up wandering through a neighbour's home.

There is asbestos in the panels on the outside walls on our houses where I live. Whenever one breaks in the neighborhood I find it very worrying.