Murrmurr
SF VIP
- Location
- Sacramento, California
A list of only some essential jobs of the past that were made obsolete by progress, leaving a countless number of people at least temporarily unemployed:
Stagecoach driver, wagon & stagecoach designer and builder, blacksmith, Elliman (oil-lamp sales and delivery), ice man, wagon wheel maker and repairman, grain-miller, cobbler, monument and grave-stone carver, weaver, candle maker, streetlamp lighter and snuffer, rail trackman, glassblower / bottle-maker, steam engine designer, builder, and repairman, interior gas-lamp line installer, repairman, and inspector, whaler, whale-oil refinement worker, coal miner, all jobs associated with the telegraph industry.
AI could probably name moreā¦and give a close estimate of the number of people left unemployed, too. AI could also probably explain how workers and business and industry owners survived the obviously frightening financial losses.
Stagecoach driver, wagon & stagecoach designer and builder, blacksmith, Elliman (oil-lamp sales and delivery), ice man, wagon wheel maker and repairman, grain-miller, cobbler, monument and grave-stone carver, weaver, candle maker, streetlamp lighter and snuffer, rail trackman, glassblower / bottle-maker, steam engine designer, builder, and repairman, interior gas-lamp line installer, repairman, and inspector, whaler, whale-oil refinement worker, coal miner, all jobs associated with the telegraph industry.
AI could probably name moreā¦and give a close estimate of the number of people left unemployed, too. AI could also probably explain how workers and business and industry owners survived the obviously frightening financial losses.

