Across
- 3. Peaking during the Industrial Revolution and then falling into a steep decline after the adoption of electric and gas alternatives.
- 8. The job was vital to keeping rat populations under control in Europe to prevent food damage and the spread of disease.
- 10. When medical professionals believed that bloodletting could cure an illness or disease, they were responsible for retrieving the blood-sucking insects from their natural habitat for doctors to use.
- 14. After a bowler would take a turn, they would jump into a pit, clear the downed pins, and roll the ball back to the bowler. After the second turn, they would quickly gather the pins and realign them.
- 16. They would wear white coats and be responsible for maintaining the popular soda fountains and dispensing glasses of soda from a spigot behind a counter.
- 17. They would be in charge of manually opening and closing elevator doors, controlling the speed of the car, and announcing what businesses were situated on each floor as the car approached.
- 19. When reliable refrigeration and freezing didn't yet exist, they were tasked with cutting up the ice on frozen lakes.
- 20. They were popular positions within the publishing, administrative and clerical industries.
- 21. They rocked construction sites, mining stone that was used for other home-building purposes
- 22. They would copy manuscripts and other documents word for word, and they were common in the medieval period around 1350.
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- 1. People would hire them to tap on the glass of their window with a long pole or shoot peas at the glass to wake them up.
- 2. They were responsible for arranging the hot-metal type on presses to publish printed newspapers.
- 4. Similar to their professional cousins, blacksmiths, they had expertise in working copper and brass, a copper and zinc alloy.
- 5. Hired by scientists, they would illegally dig up dead bodies for anatomical research.
- 6. The practice of employing people to taste the food for a member of a royal family or an important figure to ensure that the food wasn't poisoned
- 7. They used masks to protect themselves from the contagious air, and many used a wooden cane so they could check patients without touching them. (common at the time of the bubonic plague)
- 9. They would be hired to dig out all the feces from a house's privy and bring it to a dump to be repurposed as fertilizer or building materials.
- 11. They would inform the townspeople of the latest news, proclamations, and other information, as most people were illiterate and were not able to read the news.
- 12. They were responsible for sending and receiving Mors code using telegraph equipment to communicate by radio and landlines.
- 13. They were responsible for operating a film projector in a cinema.
- 15. Logs were transported to the sawmill using the currents of the river and the men guided the logs down river and ensured there were no jams along the way.
- 18. They would be in charge of making calculations to determine, for example, how many rockets it would take to make a plane airborne. The calculations took place on graph paper and could sometimes take up to a week.