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“ History of the Toilet ”

“ History of the Toilet ” . 5/9/13 Jacobee Roscoe. Going inside. The Harappan city dwellers of Indus Valley build the earliest known indoor toilets. These toilets did not flush and empty into a brick- lined sewer system. Royal Flush.

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“ History of the Toilet ”

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  1. “History of the Toilet” 5/9/13 Jacobee Roscoe

  2. Going inside • The Harappan city dwellers of Indus Valley build the earliest known indoor toilets. • These toilets did not flush and empty into a brick- lined sewer system.

  3. Royal Flush • Plumbers on the Greek island of Crete install the world's first flush toilet in the queen's bathroom. • It will be centuries before toilet technology rises to this level again.

  4. Really Public Bathrooms • Rome used public toilets built above the sewer • As many as 11,000 seats are lined up in rectangular rooms along stone henches--with no partitions for privacy.

  5. This Job is the Pits • 1300 AD: By now many Europeans are doing their business in outhouses • A man named Richard the Raker had a fatal accident when he was cleaning his outhouse. He fell through the rotted wood floors and drown in his own monstrously excrement.

  6. Heads Up • 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!"

  7. A Charmin’ Idea • Joseph Gayetty of New York introduces toilet paper. Each sheet is proudly printed with Gayetty'ssignature • Before this, people used whatever they could find, including dried corncobs and pages from catalogs.

  8. Bathroom Reading • Devoted readers who don't have time to leave the library can buy a fancy chamber pot disguised as a stack of books

  9. Stop Making Scents • 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.

  10. Sculptured Seats • Englishman Thomas Twyford introduces the Unitas, the first one­Piece, all-ceramic toilet • The new john eliminates the leaky joints that made earlier wood-and-metal models smelly

  11. 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.

  12. Toilet fun facts • The average person spends three whole years of their life sitting on the toilet. • The film “Psycho” was the first movie to show a toilet flushing – the scene caused an inpouring of complaints about indecency. • The Scott Paper Company is the first company to manufacture tissue on a roll, specifically for the use of toilet paper.

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