There were no double windows, and the houses were warmed by open fires.
There were no matches.
There were no water-pipes in the houses, and no provision was made for discharging sewage.

There were no railroads, telegraphs or telephones.

Letter postage to New York from Boston was twenty-five cents.

None of the modern agricultural machinery then existed, not even good modern plows.

Crops were planted by hand and cultivated with the hoe and spade.
Vegetables were dug with the hoe, and hay and grain cut with the sickle or scythe.