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History of the Toilet. By Kiara Robinson 2/18/14. Going inside . The Harappan city dwellers built the earliest known indoor toilets. The toilets did not flush and emptied into a brick-lined sewer system. Royal Flush .
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History of the Toilet By Kiara Robinson 2/18/14
Going inside • The Harappan city dwellers built the earliest known indoor toilets. • The toilets did not flush and emptied into a brick-lined sewer system
Royal Flush • Plumbers on the Greek island Crete install the world's first flush toilet in the queen's bathroom • Unfortunately an earthquake destroys the royal house around
Really Public Bathrooms • Construction of Cloaca Maxima, a sewer system that uses public toilets, takes place • 11,000 seats are lined up in rectangular rooms • There's one sponge on the end of a stick.
This Job is the Pits • Europeans built outhouses tiny sheds with a seat built over a deep hole in the ground. • An English outhouse-cleaner, Richard, falls through the rotted wood floor and drowns "monstrously in his own excrement."
Heads Up • Dwellers relieve themselves indoors in chamber pots • When the pot is full, they toss the contents out the window, shouting "Gardy-loo!” to warn anybody unlucky enough to be walking below
A Charmin’ Idea • 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 • Devoted readers buy a fancy chamber pot disguised as a stack of books • It’s one of the most popular models of chamber pots in France
Stop Making Scents • An English watchmaker named Alexander Cummings patents a device known as the S-trap • The S-trap is a valve that keeps the bowl filled with water • it allows poop to go down without letting smells come up.
Sculptured Seats • Englishman Thomas Twyford introduces the Unitas, the first one-Piece, all-ceramic toilet • These ceramic toilets catch on quickly; many are covered with elaborate decorations or molded into the shapes of animals.
Minding Your Business • 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 con¬tent, and chemical sensors inside analyze your output for information about your health.
Luxury Toilets in Manhattan • A New York firm wants to charge people $8 a day to use “luxury” toilet complexes. • Passes cost $24 for three days, $8 per day, along with a $15 annual sign-up fee. 10 days at $60. • Kids under 18 are free with an adult http://nypost.com/2014/02/19/luxury-toilets-planned-near-grand-central-for-8-a-day/