9 unusual professions of our ancestors that no longer exist

Progress does not stand still, new technologies are developing more rapidly, denser and denser intruding into our lives. Many forecasts already prophesy to us that in the near future robots will be able to replace accountants, sellers and telecom operators. Thus, some specialties that once seemed familiar to us, and possibly irreplaceable, will disappear. However, such a process does not occur for the first time. For example, the achievements of the industrial revolution of the mid-19th century also did not leave a chance to survive a number of professions and crafts. We present to you a selection of nine professions that, according to statistics from the US Employment Bureau, which has been keeping records since 1850, have gradually disappeared from the labor market, as if they never existed.

Daguerreotypists are people who created the first portrait photographs using daguerreotypes, a kind of memory mirrors. In fact, the image taken by the pinhole camera was manifested due to mercury vapor.

Chimney sweeps are an ancient profession of chimney cleaners.

Pied Piper - thanks to the people of this profession, entire cities have been saved from rats, which are carriers of dangerous infections.

Milkmen are previously popular and beloved by many people who quickly delivered fresh milk to their customers.

Hemp dressers are workers who worked on hemp fabrics, which used to be an important part of the linen industry.

Rockbreakers are quarry workers who mine important building materials, stone, from soil and sand.

Knocker-up is a profession, the birthplace of which are England and Ireland. It was there that initially people began to appear, whose task was to awaken others. They did it by knocking on the windows with long bamboo sticks or shooting peas.

Women who in the past performed the work of calculators. They manually multiplied, divided, and performed other simple mathematical work.

Lecturers who read aloud the news and literary works for factory workers during their long work shifts.

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