I remember "When I'm 64" by the Beatles. One of the lyrics talked about "mending a fuse". I did not know what this meant until I visited my brother's father in law while in England. He showed how to fix a fuse using fuse wire.
As a youngster, I remember fuseboxes had plain old screw-in lamp style fuses.
That was in the 1960s...circuit breakers have long replaced fuses.
