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Wow, the combination of those heavy metal blades and the sparsely placed safety bars definitely doesn't look finger friendly!
by freefal 6y ago
Wow, the combination of those heavy metal blades and the sparsely placed safety bars definitely doesn't look finger friendly!
- wyattpeak 6y agoI'd suspect those early cages were to prevent accidentally bumping into it, rather than child-safety. Child-safety is a pretty high bar, even if it's common today. You not only have to prevent someone accidentally hurting themselves, but more-or-less intentionally doing so.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThe kids were already electrocuted by the Edison sockets.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoThe early home installations for electric power where mindbogglingly unsafe.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoI bet the cages nowadays were the result from a lawsuit. A lot of safety precautions (and warnings) are from that. I'm not knocking it, people do need to be protected from themselves (and accidents), I'm objecting to the massive damages lawsuits.
- jayd16 6y agoYes, it seems more like an open air blender than a fan.
- jroseman93 6y agoThis was designed in an era when safety was seen as the responsibility of the user, not the manufacturer. It was your responsibility not to stick your fingers in there, not the manufacturer's responsibility to prevent you from doing so.
- mikestew 6y agoIt was not a finger-friendly time for technology. Here, take a look at the Farmall tractor/buzzsaw combination that is quite similar to the one I grew up cutting wood with (and probably only slightly newer than some of those fans) : http://sketchesofalaska.blogspot.com/2012/08/farmall-tractor-with-buzz-saw-at.html http://sketchesofalaska.blogspot.com/2012/08/farmall-tractor... I have all fingers and toes, but you couldn't sell that shit today without getting sued out of existence.