The First Lawnmower: When 9 Historic Things Happened for the First Time
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Date: 2024-10-08
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promontorium
The opening line, saying we take these things for granted, is incongruous with the juxtaposition that they're older than we think. These items being really old should logically lend to us taking them for granted, not as you suggest, the opposite.
If someone were reasonably aware of technology and society they might note their grandparents talking about days before television or color TV, and parents talking about days before digital. But nobody has great-grandparents talking about days before lawn mowers, for the exact reason you mention, they've been around awhile. And so they're much more ingrained in society. On the lawn mower specifically, it had to become common before the common front lawn was invented. The front lawn started becoming common from about the 1930s-1940s. Some people MIGHT have some old family who remembered the days before suburbia, but they probably didn't instinctively tie in We didn't have suburbs because lawnmowers were uncommon As the lawn and the mower had long existed, they'd view their own life through their own lens. And so, we take them for granted. Because everyone has for over 100 years.
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The opening line, saying we take these things for granted, is incongruous with the juxtaposition that they're older than we think. These items being really old should logically lend to us taking them for granted, not as you suggest, the opposite.
If someone were reasonably aware of technology and society they might note their grandparents talking about days before television or color TV, and parents talking about days before digital. But nobody has great-grandparents talking about days before lawn mowers, for the exact reason you mention, they've been around awhile. And so they're much more ingrained in society. On the lawn mower specifically, it had to become common before the common front lawn was invented. The front lawn started becoming common from about the 1930s-1940s. Some people MIGHT have some old family who remembered the days before suburbia, but they probably didn't instinctively tie in We didn't have suburbs because lawnmowers were uncommon As the lawn and the mower had long existed, they'd view their own life through their own lens. And so, we take them for granted. Because everyone has for over 100 years.
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sarahatze2088
Please do more episodes like this! It’s really interesting to learn how everyday objects made it into our lives! I saw an episode of Dark History by Bailey Sarian where she spoke about the dark history of designer brands! Some were really really mind-boggling! Like Burberry who created the trench coat. I believe she said It was orginally designed for the English and French soldiers in WW1 which pretty much set the brand up for success and is now known as a designer luxury bran today! Some other luxury brands have a darker coming of age story but really interesting nonetheless!
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Please do more episodes like this! It’s really interesting to learn how everyday objects made it into our lives! I saw an episode of Dark History by Bailey Sarian where she spoke about the dark history of designer brands! Some were really really mind-boggling! Like Burberry who created the trench coat. I believe she said It was orginally designed for the English and French soldiers in WW1 which pretty much set the brand up for success and is now known as a designer luxury bran today! Some other luxury brands have a darker coming of age story but really interesting nonetheless!
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nazfan01
I live in a very historical and early industrial age part of Ohio. I noticed a lot of people in this area really have no idea what they have. Lots of many unusual items that can be found are mainly found in 200 year old barns or/and homes.
I went to a yard sale one time and found a reel/rotary push mower from the 1880s. This is the only one I ever seen and never seen another one this old again. Pretty much the same thing you can still find to this day at hardware stores. Pretty cool collector piece that still rotates. BTW, the two wheels are metal, of course
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I live in a very historical and early industrial age part of Ohio. I noticed a lot of people in this area really have no idea what they have. Lots of many unusual items that can be found are mainly found in 200 year old barns or/and homes.
I went to a yard sale one time and found a reel/rotary push mower from the 1880s. This is the only one I ever seen and never seen another one this old again. Pretty much the same thing you can still find to this day at hardware stores. Pretty cool collector piece that still rotates. BTW, the two wheels are metal, of course
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btetschner
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating a Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tart. while watching this Weird History video!
The first time happenstance connection between Preston and Amanda was when they ate the exact same pop-tart!
That is from the awesome movie Can't Hardly Wait!
From the Weird History video Why Do Pop Tarts Come In Twos
I have watched that movie 20-30 times!
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Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating a Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tart. while watching this Weird History video!
The first time happenstance connection between Preston and Amanda was when they ate the exact same pop-tart!
That is from the awesome movie Can't Hardly Wait!
From the Weird History video Why Do Pop Tarts Come In Twos
I have watched that movie 20-30 times!
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btetschner
1: 29 Nike is the shoe brand that was the most popular for athletic shoes in our area during the 80s and 90s.
My football, basketball, wrestling, and track spikes shoes that I used for junior high and high school sports were all of the brand Nike.
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1: 29 Nike is the shoe brand that was the most popular for athletic shoes in our area during the 80s and 90s.
My football, basketball, wrestling, and track spikes shoes that I used for junior high and high school sports were all of the brand Nike.
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maryaltshuller885
When my parents were about to get married in 1959, the folks at my dad's place of employment took up a collection and bought him a blue lawn mower as a wedding gift.
Was hoping to hear about the invention of the air conditioner.
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When my parents were about to get married in 1959, the folks at my dad's place of employment took up a collection and bought him a blue lawn mower as a wedding gift.
Was hoping to hear about the invention of the air conditioner.
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ArcherSuh4721
I was going to leave a comment about how the ancient Etruscans invented the earliest version of the straw in order to drink the earliest version of beer only to remember I learned about that from a Weird History video.
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I was going to leave a comment about how the ancient Etruscans invented the earliest version of the straw in order to drink the earliest version of beer only to remember I learned about that from a Weird History video.
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btetschner
1: 17 That reminds me of Wim Hof, the Dutch athlete known as The Iceman!
I have the book Becoming The Iceman by Justin Rosales and Wim Hof, it is a instruction book for adapting to cold environments.
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1: 17 That reminds me of Wim Hof, the Dutch athlete known as The Iceman!
I have the book Becoming The Iceman by Justin Rosales and Wim Hof, it is a instruction book for adapting to cold environments.
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reasonablebutcrazy
You talked about tie shoes and lawnmowers on the same video, but you didn't show someone so mad his shoes untied that he took them off and punished his tie shoes by being cut up with a mower
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You talked about tie shoes and lawnmowers on the same video, but you didn't show someone so mad his shoes untied that he took them off and punished his tie shoes by being cut up with a mower
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jonathanhall1825
Rotary lawn mowers ate popular in golf maintenance for cutting grass on tees, collars, approaches, and greens and targets on the driving range in my own opinion they are a pain in the butt
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Rotary lawn mowers ate popular in golf maintenance for cutting grass on tees, collars, approaches, and greens and targets on the driving range in my own opinion they are a pain in the butt
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PatrickDowdle
Were those that sold insurance policies way back in ancient times, just as slow to pay out to a claimant, or find some loophole to get out of paying, as todays insurance companies tend to do
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Were those that sold insurance policies way back in ancient times, just as slow to pay out to a claimant, or find some loophole to get out of paying, as todays insurance companies tend to do
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Tully_23_32
Us Aussie's don't wear shoes. Even if we're going the supermarket & takeaway shops. It's just something we Aussie's do that a lot of the world find weird but to us it's as normal as fukk.
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Us Aussie's don't wear shoes. Even if we're going the supermarket & takeaway shops. It's just something we Aussie's do that a lot of the world find weird but to us it's as normal as fukk.
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randyyork9197
I really like this narrator and watch these videos because he has the right voice to make the videos that much more entertaining keep this person sincerely a fan
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I really like this narrator and watch these videos because he has the right voice to make the videos that much more entertaining keep this person sincerely a fan
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btetschner
0: 36 We used to buy bright shoelaces and string them in our shoes.
I still have a pair of black shoes that have purple shoelaces that I strung in them!
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0: 36 We used to buy bright shoelaces and string them in our shoes.
I still have a pair of black shoes that have purple shoelaces that I strung in them!
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NewMessage
Look on the bright side. You're the FIRST person to lose both hands trying to dig built up grass out of the bottom of a running lawnmower! Neat, hunh
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Look on the bright side. You're the FIRST person to lose both hands trying to dig built up grass out of the bottom of a running lawnmower! Neat, hunh
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tremorsfan
Heron also invented the first vending machine. When a person would put a coin in a slot a valve would open up dispensing holy water.
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Heron also invented the first vending machine. When a person would put a coin in a slot a valve would open up dispensing holy water.
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hunterG60k
So the actual inventor of the vacuum cleaner was a janitor who had his design stolen I am saddened but not surprised.
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So the actual inventor of the vacuum cleaner was a janitor who had his design stolen I am saddened but not surprised.
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