Why We Used to Pay People to Wake Us Up

Alarm Clock Before They Existed: The Wild History of Waking Up On Time — from Ancient Greek water clocks and London's knocker-uppers with peashooters, to the WWII alarm clock shortage that nearly stalled the war effort, and the accidental gear-teeth mistake that gave us the 9-minute snooze button. The surprising, hidden history of how humans solved timekeeping before the alarm clock changed everything. #AlarmClockHistory #HiddenHistory #SnoozeButton #HistoryFacts #DidYouKnow #WeirdHistory #IndustrialRevolution #KnockerUpper #TimeManagement #HistoryChannel