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History of the Toilet. By Matthew Fisher 4/10/13. Going inside . About 2500 Bc : The Harappan city dwellers of the Indus Valley (present-day India and Pakistan) build the earliest known indoor toilets . The toilets, which do not flush, empty into a brick-lined sewer system . .
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History of the Toilet By Matthew Fisher4/10/13
Going inside • About 2500 Bc: The Harappan city dwellers of the Indus Valley (present-day India and Pakistan) 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. • an earthquake destroyed the toilet around 1400 Ac.
Really Public Bathrooms • About 800 bc: The Romans constructed the Cloaca Maxima which is an enormous sewer system • . As many as 11,000 toilet seats are lined up in rectangular rooms along stone henches--with no partitions for privacy
This Job is the Pits • 1300 AD: By now many Europeans are doing their business in outhouses • While cleaning out an outhouse Richard the Rakerfeel through the rotted wood floor and drowns "monstrously in his own excrement
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
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 made the first modern flush toilet. • Unlike earlier models, it allows poop to go down without letting smells come up.
Sculptured Seats • 1885: Englishman Thomas Twyford introduces the first one Piece, all-ceramic toilet • The new john eliminates the leaky joints that made earlier wood-and-metal models smelly.
Minding Your Business • 1999: The Matsushita Electronic Industrial Company of Japan previews a toilet that's smarter than you are. • This toilet can give you information on your health
Toilet themed restaurant • the first toilet-themed restaurant, Modern Toilet, opened in Taipei in 2004 • One of London’s most hotly anticipated openings of 2013 is Tom Sellers’ new restaurant, Story, is a toilet restaurant