Hah!
*clicks*

The house we bought in October had a 45 year old breaker panel full of screw in glass fuses...the first thing I did was replace it.
( HairyTwatter and the wild sorority girls of the planet Playtex, Mon 24 Mar 2008, 11:49, archived)

Still standard in Switzerland.
we do have a modern circuit breaker as well, though, but this place really is in 1936.
(Colonel Boris New book out now! (see profile), Mon 24 Mar 2008, 12:25, archived)