Past Jobs

3. The would go around town lighting and extinguishing gas-burning street lamps before electricity.
6. Responsible for manually opening and closing elevator doors and bringing guests up and down floors.
9. In ancient Greece, they measured their steps to calculate distances. They published their calculations in books, which listed distances between well-known points.
10. Responsible for waking people up by making loud noises, by throwing rocks or tapping on windows with long poles, in the 1800's.
11. Responsible for loading films on projectors at the cinema. When the movie ended they were responsible for rewinding the film and unloading it.

1. They answered and directed phone calls to the appropriate party on a large switchboard.
2. Used to arrange the letters, spaces and numbers on the hot-metal typesetting device used to print newspapers.
4. responsible for making calculations for scientists, researchers, and technology organizations like NASA. They made calculations on graph paper.
5. Was responsible for sending and receiving Morse code using machines.
7. collected ice from lakes to sell to keep food cold.
8. Delivered milk daily to customers' homes to prevent it from going sour.