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Handwritten 200-year-old dismissal notice found on roof tile
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yorwba
· 2026-11-15 Sun 11:23 UTC ·
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Thomas Austin in 1820 "discharged" the employee. And Stoke-on-Trent is in Britain.
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jareklupinski
· 2026-11-15 Sun 11:27 UTC ·
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its a long way across the pond, and you know how stories go when they travel :)
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layer8
· 2026-11-15 Sun 11:37 UTC ·
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Maybe he was really an electrician.
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gpvos
· 2026-11-15 Sun 12:58 UTC ·
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Probably the first one then, electricity was still in the research stage at that time.
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smelendez
· 2026-11-15 Sun 13:24 UTC ·
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The parent comment was a pun on discharge but incidentally Ben Franklin is often called the first electrician and credited with coining the term.