9 unusual professions of our ancestors, which no longer exist.

Progress does not stand still, new technologies are developing ever more rapidly, denser and more intruding into our lives. Many forecasts already predict us that in the near future robots will be able to replace accountants, sellers and telecom operators. Thus, some specialties that once seemed familiar to us, and possibly irreplaceable, will disappear. However, this process is not the first time. For example, the achievements of the industrial revolution of the mid-19th century also left no chance to survive a number of professions and crafts. We present to you a selection of nine professions that, according to statistics from the US Employment Bureau, which has been keeping records since 1850, have gradually disappeared from the labor market, as if they never existed.

1. Daguerreotypes are people who created the first portrait photos with the help of daguerreotypes, original mirrors with memory. In fact, the image made by the camera obscura, manifested itself through mercury vapor.

2.Chimney sweepers are an ancient profession of chimney sweepers.

3.Pied Piper - thanks to the people of this profession entire cities were saved from rats that carry the dangerous infections.

4.Milkmen - previously popular and loved by many people, quickly delivered to their customers fresh milk.

5.Hemp-dressers are workers who worked on hemp fabrics, which used to be an important part of the linen industry.

6.Kamnelomy - workers in quarries, extracting important building material, stone, from soil and sand.

7.Knocker-up - a profession whose home became England and Ireland. It was there initially began to appear people whose task was to awaken others. They did it knocking on windows with long bamboo sticks or shooting peas.

8.Women who performed calculators in the past. They manually multiply, divide and perform other simple mathematical work.

9.Lecturers who loudly read news and literary works for factory workers in their long labor shifts.