Answer: A coffee grinder
Today, you can grind coffee beans at the touch of a button with an electric coffee grinder (or just buy them pre-ground). But getting the same result a century ago meant hand-cranking your beans against a set of blades to finely mill them.
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Looked something like an old vacuum but the hint f a man using it says maybe a beard trimmer.
Coffee grinder.
Coffee Grinder
Toaster
Crank phone
Phone
Hair Clippers
Hand hair clippers
home made ice cream maker
The hand clippers were a torture device. They pulled more hair than they cut. Remember my dad getting them out and a chair when I was very young. I remembered my previous encounter and scurried under the bed. Wrong move. The bed moved and I was physically placed in the chair to endure another hair pulling.
low energy washing machine and low water.
Stove top toaster
Early toaster without the electrical cord.
Printing press.
Hair clippers