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09-04-2016, 05:11 PM
Before alarm clocks, Brits paid people to wake them up by tapping on their window
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c. 1900
A k**cker-up rouses a client in Lancashire.
Image: Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images
Though designs for alarm clocks date back to the ancient Greeks, they were still **t particularly widespread well after the Industrial Revolution. In Britain and Ireland, a large number of enterprising early birds made a living waking people for work.
A k**cker-up would be paid a few pence a week to make the rounds and rouse workers, banging on their doors with a short stick or rapping on upper ******* with a long pole. The k**cker-up would **t move on until he received confirmation that his drowsy client was up and moving. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/04/k**ckers-up/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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c. 1900
A k**cker-up rouses a client in Lancashire.
Image: Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images
Though designs for alarm clocks date back to the ancient Greeks, they were still **t particularly widespread well after the Industrial Revolution. In Britain and Ireland, a large number of enterprising early birds made a living waking people for work.
A k**cker-up would be paid a few pence a week to make the rounds and rouse workers, banging on their doors with a short stick or rapping on upper ******* with a long pole. The k**cker-up would **t move on until he received confirmation that his drowsy client was up and moving. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/04/k**ckers-up/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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