The Rockwood and Company Chocolate Flood
Added 2023-10-06 10:15:01 +0000 UTCOne of the sources I used for this story was this newspaper extract from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. It’s well worth a read… especially as it also includes another story of a similarly bizarre nature. Under the header of “Boy Brings Home Bomb” it tells the story of a 14-year-old who proudly presented his family with a live grenade he’d found on the street. Kids got into some pretty interesting mischief back in the early 1900s!
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That's way earlier than I was expecting for the first person to be killed by a robot. Very strange and very interesting - this would fit well with a video I'm working on now about workplace accidents
Fascinating Horror
2023-10-11 05:14:32 +0000 UTCIt has to be about the most whimsical non-water flood in history!
Fascinating Horror
2023-10-11 05:00:47 +0000 UTCHow about a video on the death of Robert Williams? He was an American factory worker who was killed by an industrial robot arm on January 25, 1979. The incident made him the first human to ever be killed by a robot. Here's the Wikipedia for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality) BTW, googling "Death of Robert Williams" will get you results about Robin Williams's death, just so you know.
Michael Rutherford
2023-10-07 14:00:50 +0000 UTCSounds like something from a Willy Wonka film. If only there had been a marshmallow flood and we had to pick it up using graham crackers!
Kathryn Clark
2023-10-06 17:42:00 +0000 UTC
