history of the toilet

History of the ToiletBy: Jared Jacobs-El

September 12th

Going Inside ( 2500 B.C)Indus Valley earliest toilets

No flush, Brick lined sewers

Most advances happen in Europe

Royal Flush (1500 B.C) Crete first flush toilet

Rainwater used to flush through clay pipes

Earthquake destroyed this technology

Really Public Bathrooms (800 B.C) Roman sewer system,

Dumps into Tiber River

11,000 seats without partitions

Shared sponge

Heads Up (1500s)Chamber pot: self-emptied

Gardy-loo

This Job is the Pits (1300 AD)European outhouses: Seat

with a deep hole

Richard the Raker drowns

A Charmin’ Idea (1857) Joseph Gavetty toilet paper

Used to use anything you could find

Bathroom Reading (1672) Chamber pots disguised as a

stack of books

Stop Making Scents (1775) Alexander Cummings S-trap

Valve keeps bowl filled with water

No smells

Sculptured Seats (1885) Thomas Twyford all ceramic

toilet

No leaks

Decorated

Minding Your Business (1999) Matsushita Electronic Industrial

Company: toilet measures weight and body fat content

Analyze health

Extra 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 toilet is flushed more times during the Super Bowl halftime than at any time during the year