Invention of the Day - The Toilet
The toilet
In the distant past people did what animals
did. They left their body wastes in the country side. In our modern day toilet
water from the tank swishes away the wastes into the sewer. John Harrington
godson of queen Elizabeth the first had the idea in fifteen eighty-nine but
hardly any houses had a water supply to fill the tank or a drain where it could
be emptied. Next was Doultons pedestal toilet invented in eighteen
eighty-eight. The water was stored on the wall high above the toilet bowl or
pan. Pull the chain and water rushed down the pipe around the bowl through the
trap and into the sewer.
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