This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. If you are curious and excited about the ways in which our brave men did the commonest of jobs with the most basic technologies and negligible safety gears then, this is the book for you! Learn about the lives and daring jobs of firemen, sea-divers, bridge builders, circus trainers and more with this handy book. Contents: The Steeple-Climber The Deep-Sea Diver The Balloonist The Pilot The Bridge-Builder The Fireman The Aërial Acrobat The Wild-Beast Tamer The Dynamite Worker The Locomotive Engineer