In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:00:35 -0500, philo
wrote:



The conduit was "semi" grounded but there was no need for it to have a
good ground.

As a matter of fact, there was not much attention to safety.

There was mainly lighting and not very many appliances...probably vacuum
cleaners and toasters at first.
If you flipped the switch and the light went on , all was considered OK.


Someone told me that the vacuum cleaner was one of the first appliances
because with electric lighting people finally noticed how dirty their
houses were.

LOL. I believe it.

Before there were electric vacuum cleaners, there were manual ones. One
had to pump them. I don't think they were very popular or worked that
well.


I am also correcting the wiring to make sure that the light switches
actually disconnect the hot side....not all of them did.

When I was 19, I found that in our fraternity house, built as a large
house maybe 1920? but I thought it was my mistake, not the house's. It
didn't occur to me to fix it.