There Used to Be “Human Alarm Clocks”

Before Alarm Clocks, People Were Paid to Wake You Up for Work

Long before alarm clocks existed, there was a real job called a “knocker-upper.”

And yes — their job was exactly what it sounds like.

Every morning before sunrise, they walked through town waking workers up for their shifts. Some carried long sticks to tap on second-story windows. Others used small peashooters to knock on upper floors. A few even carried lightweight hammers designed just for window tapping.

Factories depended on workers arriving on time, so missing your wake-up call wasn’t an option. If you didn’t sit up or appear at the window, the knocking continued.

Entire neighborhoods relied on these human alarm clocks every single morning.

It worked so well that the job lasted into the early 1900s — right up until mechanical alarm clocks finally became affordable for most households.

Which makes the next question pretty obvious…

What did the first alarm clocks actually sound like when they finally replaced them?

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