History of the Toilet By Jeremy Hunt Going

History of the Toilet By: Jeremy Hunt

Going Inside • 2500 BC: Harappan city dwellers of the Indus Valley build the earliest indoor toilets. • Toilets didn’t flush, but instead emptied into a brink-lined sewer.

Royal Flush • 1500 BC: Plumbers on the Greek island of Crete install the first flush toilet in the queen’s bathroom. • When flushed, rainwater is released down clay pipes that run through the palace. • Around 1400 AC, an earthquake destroyed the toilet.

Really Public Bathrooms • 800 BC: In Rome the construction of the Cloaca Maxima takes place. • An enormous sewer system that carries waste to the Tiber River. • 11, 000 seats lined up in rectangular rooms, with no privacy. • To wipe, use a sponge on the end of a stick, but there’s only one.

This Job is the Pits • 1300 AD: Now Europeans are doing there business in outhouses. • English outhouse-cleaner, Richard the Raker, met a terrible end while cleaning out a smelly outhouse. Falls in a hole, and drowns in his own crap.

Heads Up • 1500: European dwellers relieve themselves indoors in a bowl. • When the bowl is full they toss it out the window and yell, “Gardy-loo!”

A Charmin’ Idea • 1857: Joseph Gayetty introduces toilet paper. • Before that they used whatever they could find.

Bathroom Reading • 1672: Readers, who don’t want to leave the library, can buy a fancy chamber pot disguised as a stack of books.

Stop Making Scents • 1775: Alexander Cummings invents the modern flush toilet. • It allows poop to down without smells coming up.

Sculptured Seats • 1885: Thomas Twyford introduces the firs one-piece, allceramic toilet. • The toilets are covered with elaborate decorations or modeled into the shapes of animals.

Minding Your Business • 1999: Matasushita Electronic Industrial Company of japan Previews a toilet smarter than you are. • Scientist expect the pot to market in a few years.

Final Fact • Thomas Crapper invented the flushing toilet. • An average person will visit the toilet 2500 times per year. That’s 6 -8 times a day and totals to 3 years of your life. • The average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years