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History of the Toilet. By: SaVonne B ennette Monday, November 26. Going inside . About 2500 BC: The Harappan city dwellers build the earliest known indoor toilets . The toilets, which do not flush, empty into a brick-lined sewer system. . Royal Flush .
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History of the Toilet By: SaVonneBennette Monday, November 26
Going inside • About 2500 BC: The Harappan city dwellers build the earliest known indoor toilets. • The toilets, which do not flush, empty into a brick-lined sewer system.
Royal Flush • About 1500 BC: Plumbers on the Greek island of Crete install the world's first flush toilet in the queen's bathroom. • When the queen flushes, a tankful of rainwater is released into the bowl and washes her doings down clay pipes that run through the palace.
Really Public Bathrooms • About 800 BC: In Rome, construction of the Cloaca Maxima takes place. • It's an enormous sewer system that carries the city's waste to the Tiber River Citizens use public toilets built above the sewer. • As many as 11,000 seats are lined up with no partitions for privacy.
This Job is the Pits • 1300 AD: By now many Europeans are doing their business in outhouses, (tiny sheds with a seat built over a deep hole in the ground). • An English outhouse-cleaner known as Richard the Rakerfalls through the rotted wood floor and drowns while trying to clean his own outhouse
Heads Up • 1500s: Many European city dwellers relieve themselves indoors in a bowl called a chamber pot. • When the pot is full, they just toss the contents out the window, shouting "Gardy-loo!" (which means "watch out for the water") to warn anybody unlucky enough to be walking below.
A Charmin’ Idea • 1857: Joseph Gayetty of New York introduces toilet paper. • Before this, people used whatever they could find, including dried corncobs and pages from catalogs.
Bathroom Reading • 1672: Devoted readers who don't have time to leave the library can buy a fancy chamber pot disguised as a stack of books. • One of the most popular models of chamber pots in France.
Stop Making Scents • 1775: An English watchmaker named Alexander Cummings patents a device known as the S-trap, and the modern flush toilet is-finally born. • The S-trap is a valve that keeps the bowl filled with water. Unlike earlier models, it allows poop to go down without letting smells come up.
Sculptured Seats • 1885: Englishman Thomas Twyford introduces the Unitas, the first one-Piece, all-ceramic toilet. • The new john eliminates the leaky joints that made earlier wood-and-metal models smelly. • These ceramic toilets were molded into the shapes of animals such as lions and dolphins.
Minding Your Business • 1999: The Matsushita Electronic Industrial Company of Japan previews a toilet that's smarter than you are. • The high-tech bowl measures your weight and body-fat content, and chemical sensors inside analyze your output for information about your health.
What I have learned • I have learned that a long time ago people had to poop in public. • I have learned that a guy actually died while cleaning his out house (heard it before and thought it was a rumor) • I have learned that there are now heated toilet seats