Man shows off his household applicances in his all-electric home to a visitor. The kitchen, the dining room, other rooms in the house. Sewing machine, vacuum cleaner, electrically heated pan, toaster. Stove, washing machine. Cigar lighter.
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4:20 am i the only one that flinched at the idea of her getting her hair caught in those gears?
Get into my electric. The car was electric.
107 yrs ago. My how. Things have changed. Don't forget when u answer ur. Cigarette lighter mistaking for the phone.
Love the heated shaving soap cup..cord dangling next to the sink. Just toss that sucker in the tub next time the little woman storms off for a bath after a big fight…
I'm upset that they didn't electrify the servants.
Haha answer5 the cigar lighter. Be careful r ull burn the lips
Interesting they were showing their gadgets to a man. He of course had the income to buy them, not the little woman at home.
Drove to the house in an electric car, the past becomes the future. Note the direction the cords go, not down for the most part, but up, Used the old socket plugs to a lamp sconce, probably with a splitter. I have several of the bulb heaters, several GE fans, the exact model cigar lighter as well as another, the plugs and a few of the other items. Excellent video, just when electric was getting more popular and affordable to the middle class.
They must have been quite a wealthy couple!!!
The makers of the clip intended a display of the future, possibly unaware how the thing soon would become a glance into the past.
No safety guards on those spinning wheels– shudders.
Wow that guy is lucky friend brought his friend to see there home.he had lunch and a cigar
That house looks like the one in Peggy Sue Got Marry I love these old video's. They look like they were built much later then that you can tell that they are rich with a maidand with all those morden technology
I just love how they have maids on every floor even with all of these electrical appliances! I guess someone had to operate them!
I like that electric car!
This is our vacuum cleaner, her name is…well that's not important.
3:29, I'M SORRY WAS THAT AN ELECTRIC CUP WITH THE BARE CORD JUST HANGING OUT THE BOTTOM
This video is so terrifying to me. I can't even pinpoint the exact reason why but it makes me so uncomfortable
This would have been an extremely luxurious home for that era.
Wiring was a disaster in those days
We have a lot of gadgets plugged up in our bathrooms, (next to our sinks) these days.
Before the majority of people had electricity the house fires were caused by sparks coming from the fireplace and landing on the wood shingled roofs. Those houses went up in flames very quickly. My dad was born in 1942. He said before he was born sometime in the 30's that was how their house caught on fire. The cookstove also had a pipe through the roof and they could catch on fire the same way, because a lot of those old cookstoves were wood burning stoves. My dad's family didn't get electricity till the 50's.
Look how these modern devices save labor for the poor overworked housewife! (Don't notice the maids).
It sucks how GE appliances has basically become your run-of-the-mill crap nowadays (I think they sold their Appliance section off in the late 2000s). There is absolutely no innovation anymore.
Really….maids😀…don’t we all.
The maids are happy .I would like to have a central vacuum.
The fact they have a maid to vacuum, iron, serve dinner and tend to a sick child really says a lot about the class of people that could even afford these things.
The electric heater next to the bath tub is killing me & i dont know wtf anybody would need an electric shaving cup for .
How long has General Electric been around dude
Oh dear I just killed the baby in the electrically heated bed that he just wet
Electric heater stood on the side of the bath? Neat.
"This is Mr Newhouse and he wishes to see our equipment". WTAF?
I take a look at my GE stove vs the one in this video, & think man, we have come a long long way.
Wondering to myself how these people would react if they walked into a modern home. Would they have the slightest clue how to do anything or would they be completely lost?
If this is 1915, and the electric family is reasonably comfortable, they sure had a crappy car – by '15 it would have been one of those enclosed phone booth models (and it would have been more likely used by the wife, though granted those families were a notch or two above this one)
My Grandmother was born in 1915 and is still alive and well, doesnt even look 90. She just celebrated her 105th Birthday September 26. She would remember these things, a few years later but this is amazing.