Thursday, December 17, 2009

Toilets you know them but do you really know them



Toilet design is not something that most would want to make a blog on but you know what I like the odd stuff so off to Google let’s lift up the seat on the toilets history. The toilet has come a very long way since its first conception in Rome. The Romans simply used public benches with holes that had water running underneath them. The toilet disappeared for centuries and finally made an appearance in the form of a bucket in the late middle ages. The flushing toilet wasn’t conceived until the 1800s when a member of the royal court designed a toilet that had a dead drop with a simple valve. The only problem with this toilet was that the smell tended to creep back up to the bathroom and thus the toilet was still not completed. It wasn’t until later that the simple elbow was added that allowed a water barrier to form thus preventing the smell from reentering the bathroom.

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