People Explain What These 93 Strange And Weird Things In Old Homes Are (New Pics)

Radiant Heater, possibly used to provide enough heat to prevent freezing in the winter months

Furnace/flue control.
It would be your home thermostats great, great, granddaddy

There could be one of three things it could be it could be a water shut off valve for the outside. It could be a wooden truffle that’s underneath the floor to make the floor sit flat you turn it and it provides tension on that board or releases tension or it could bea air duct vent valve that’s in the floor

It's an old water tank where the water was pumped from the cistern into the tank. My hand. It had a check valve on it so the water could be pressurized. There was one in my house when I bought it. I still have it so there was a hand pump prior to the tank with a check valve. Simple as that and when the pressure dropped you had to go and pump it up again

It's where the flu pipe came through the floor to heat that room

By any chance is there an outbuilding on the property? Sometimes they would use a buzzer or bell to let people know dinner was ready if they were in the outbuilding.

It is possible to do if each joint is 2 pieces of timber and placed in layers from bottom to top.
Although this image may have had the grain AI ed to fuse the grain.

Wooden spool from wire-could be electricity wire or it could b from barbed wire if it’s a farm house

It's just a parallel-tandem outlet, popular from the 1920s until the 1960s. It was made to accept either the old style tandem plugs, or the modern parallel plug. Many might be more familiar with the more common T-slot outlet, which provides the same features

It was probably added as a phone nook. Since phones didn't appear till the 1920s. Probably held a candlestick phone.

Vent for attic

Door bell transformer. Still have one in my house

Cream separator, let's cream rise to top then open valve at bottom to drain milk off

It is an old telephone lightning arrestor, a safety device used in older homes to protect against lightning strikes on telephone lines. Back in the day I knew of several people who lost their lives and several others, one of which who lived to be struck by lightning a second time, surviving two strikes.

An insulator. Were used back when closet coated wiring was common.

It is for laundry. I have one without the holes. The clothes or whatever is hot in the pot. It could also be yarn. Whatever you have to stir to clean the laundry..... or really anything that is hot. The holes, I think, help against the resistance. Or if it is short its for spanking and again the holes help against the air resistance.

There was a rope it worked like pulley that object served as a weight because the windows were made so heavy and very long . The rope has seen it's better days and gone.

It is an old telephone hardwire connection.