Dry Cleaning with Gasoline at Home 1930s
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Drycleaning dates back to ancient times, probably beginning with the advent of textile clothing itself. There are many stories about the origin of dryclean...

That is not the only warning film not to do it because people were dying all the time: https://archive.org/details/more_dangerous_then_dynamite

Some headlines of people making the worst mistake of their shortened lives:

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19330315-01.2.175&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN|txCO|txTA--------0------

https://www.newspapers.com/article/wilkes-barre-times-leader-explosion-caus/13045180/

https://post-gazette.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-gasoline-caused-two/91356754/

Occasionally, they got lucky and survived.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hot-springs-weekly-star-cleaning-clothes/124927252/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/aug/29/100-years-ago-today-in-spokane-woman-using-gasolin/

  • piecat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Holy shit this is incredible to read

    I used to explore abandoned factories when I was younger. I always dreamed what the work was like.