I can't even imagine how it was years back.. You had to do all that and even more by yourself and it took way longer than it takes us today to finish tasks, such as vacuuming. I really like these inventions, I could watch this apple peeler machine all day!
There are many inventions out there that are very useful, on the other hand there are also a few that are pretty much useless, I would say that the automatic handwriter is one of these, but I'm sure that some people would love to have it! Very interesting post! :)