Elevator operators ran lifts before push-button automation. 🛗 These jobs came from older systems of medicine, transport, war, and city life, mostly in Britain and Europe. Plague doctors were hired by towns during outbreaks, and resurrectionists sold corpses to medical schools until Britain’s Anatomy Act of 1832 widened legal access to bodies. Link boys lit dark streets, crossing sweepers cleared paths through horse traffic, and elevator operators declined with automation. Improved sound locators were still in use in 1939-1940 before radar replaced them. #History #ObsoleteJobs #MedicalHistory #BritishHistory #LaborHistory