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History of the Toilet
By Jackson Haack
Going inside • 2500 BC• The toilets empty into a brick-
lined sewer system• This plumbing technology was
lost around 1500 BC
Royal Flush
• 1500 BC• Plumbers on Crete installed the
world's first flush toilet. • When flushed, a tankful of water
releases into the bowl and washes waste down pipes
Really public Bathrooms • 800 BC• In Rome• Cloaca Maxima, is an
enormous sewer system
• 11,000 seats are lined up in rectangular rooms
• No privacy
The job is the Pits • 1300 AD• Europeans used outhouses• Richard the Raker was cleaning
out his outhouse • Unexpectedly, he fell through
the floor and drown in his own excrement
Heads Up• 1500’s• Europeans relieved themselves
indoors in a chamber pot. • When full, they just tossed the
contents out the window, shouting "Gardy-loo” to warn anybody walking below.
Bathroom Reading • 1672• Devoted readers could buy a fancy
chamber pot disguised as a stack of books
• The most popular model in France.
→
Stop Making Scents • 1775• Alexander Cummings
patents the S-trap• The S-trap is a valve that
keeps the bowl filled with water, without letting smells come up.
A Chaiman’ Ideas
• 1857• Joseph Gayetty introduced toilet paper• Each sheet had Gayetty's signature. • Before this, people used whatever they could find:• dried corncobs • catalog pages
Sculptured Seats • 1885• Englishman Thomas Twyford
introduces the Unitas• All-ceramic toilet• The new john eliminates the
leaky joints that made earlier models smelly.
• These ceramic toilets caught on quickly
Minding Your Business • 1999• The Matsushita Company of
Japan previews a toilet that's smarter than you are.
• The high-tech bowl:• measures your weight • body-fat content• chemical sensors analyze your
health.
Fun Facts
0The average person spends 3 months of their lifetime sitting on the toilet, so eat that taco on the toilet
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