Before alarm clocks, there were knocker-uppers! This weird job in history will surprise you! Automatic military draft registration takes effect in December. Here’s how it would work Disney announces ...

Before we had computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, we had people performing tasks that we now take for granted. Jobs like ice cutters and knocker-ups sound ridiculous to us now, but people ...

As the clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time, many of us will rue the loss of an hour in bed. But how did people get to work on time before alarm clocks? Until the 1970s in some areas ...

Before computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, basic menial tasks required human labor. People once relied on jobs like ice cutters and knocker-ups in their daily lives. Some jobs, like leech ...

Before alarm clocks became a household essential, waking up on time required human effort. In industrial Britain and Ireland, a unique profession emerged to solve this problem. Known as knocker uppers ...

Knocker uppers, phrenologists, and rat catchers were among the job titles of our ancestors, according to a new study. Genealogy-firm Ancestry has revealed a number of popular occupations from the 19th ...