9 odd jobs of our ancestors

If you believe the predictions of the Economist, in the near future robots will replace accountants, retailers and Telecom operators. The richest programmer in the world, bill gates said that the Internet bots huge potential in the development and optimization of modern professions.

With the development of high technologies will gradually disappear, the need for some specialties, which we now seem familiar and even indispensable. Such a process is not the first time: in the mid-nineteenth century the achievements of the industrial revolution left no chances to survive a number of professions and crafts, which in those days also seemed quite normal and natural.

We present you a selection of nine professions, gradually disappeared from the labour market, according to statistics from the Bureau of U.S. employment, which is already in 1850.

1. When selfie nobody suspected the people were portrayed with the help of daguerreotypes — the first portrait photos. Professionally created these images on polished silver real master daguerreotypist.

2. The old profession of chimney sweep, which is due to the folklore and history is shrouded in a certain light aura despite the literally dirty work cleaners of chimneys.

3. Long forgotten profession of the pied Piper. But the pied Piper saved the entire city from the invasion of rodents — vectors of dangerous infections.

4. Before the advent of home refrigerators milk was popular, but very perishable product. And adults and children knew and loved "their" milkman, who could quickly deliver buyers with fresh milk.

5. Hemp cloth was an important part of the whole linen industry. Accordingly, for the processing of hemp fabrics there was a special working, so called "hemp-dressers".

6. Working in quarries, "canneloni", extracted from soil and sand stone for use as construction material, for example, to create a kitchen table.

8. It's hard to imagine but several decades ago the simplest mathematical work is not a calculator, but ordinary women who manually do multiplication and division, replacing the familiar to us electronics.

9. Factory workers during the long working shift needed some entertainment. This function was performed by a guest lecturer, who was loudly read out the news and literary works, they say, "without interrupting production."