By: SaVonne Bennette Monday, November 26 History of the Toilet By: SaVonne Bennette Monday, November 26
Going inside About 2500 BC: The Harappan city dwellers 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. When the queen flushes, a tankful of rainwater is released into the bowl and washes her doings down clay pipes that run through the palace.
Really Public Bathrooms About 800 BC: In Rome, construction of the Cloaca Maxima takes place. It's an enormous sewer system that carries the city's waste to the Tiber River Citizens use public toilets built above the sewer. As many as 11,000 seats are lined up with no partitions for privacy.
This Job is the Pits 1300 AD: By now many Europeans are doing their business in outhouses, (tiny sheds with a seat built over a deep hole in the ground). An English outhouse-cleaner known as Richard the Raker falls through the rotted wood floor and drowns while trying to clean his own outhouse
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, shouting "Gardy-loo!" (which means "watch out for the water") to warn anybody unlucky enough to be walking below.
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 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. Unlike earlier models, it allows poop to go down without letting smells come up.
Sculptured Seats 1885: Englishman Thomas Twyford introduces the Unitas, the first one-Piece, all-ceramic toilet. The new john eliminates the leaky joints that made earlier wood-and-metal models smelly. These ceramic toilets were molded into the shapes of animals such as lions and dolphins.
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.
What I have learned I have learned that a long time ago people had to poop in public. I have learned that a guy actually died while cleaning his out house (heard it before and thought it was a rumor) I have learned that there are now heated toilet seats