By SaVonne B ennette 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 bricklined sewer system ID: 356443
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History of the Toilet
By: SaVonne Bennette Monday, November 26Slide2
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. Slide3
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.Slide4
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. Slide5
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 outhouseSlide6
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.Slide7
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.Slide8
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.Slide9
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.Slide10
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.Slide11
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. Slide12
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