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You worked in the day when there was light to see and you slept at night (or watched the stars) when it was too dark to see. Torches, candles, oil lamps, gas lights, etc. provided limited and flickery light by which simple tasks could be done but reading was difficult with such lights. If you wanted to listen to music it was a live performance and you were frequently one of the performers. Work required significant human labor and drudgery; although animals, water wheels, windmills, and steam engines eventually provided assistance as we learned how to control their power for our purposes, but such power sources had to be available where the power was needed (without electricity there is no practical means to transport power for long distances from where it is generated). Cooking was done directly over a fire, although the development of the hearth and the cast iron wood/coal kitchen stove made it less and less necessary for the cook to stand in the smoke of the fire breathing the smoke the entire time they cooked.

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