Though designs for alarm clocks date back to the ancient Greeks, they were still not particularly widespread well after the Industrial Revolution. In Britain and Ireland, a large number of ...

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 ...

In the early 20th century, many of England's workers woke up to the soft tap, tap, tap from their town's "knocker-up." These human alarm clocks — armed with pea shooters or other noisy instruments – ...

In 2014, The Economist predicted that robots are going to replace telemarketers, accountants, and retail workers, and Bill Gates has said that software bots will take even more jobs. This isn’t the ...

This is how you were woken up back in the day (Picture: SSPL/Getty) Mornings are getting darker, we’ve all got that ‘back to school’ feeling and, chances are, you hit the snooze button at least once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, basic menial tasks required human labor. People once relied on jobs like ice ...

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