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The flushable toilet, what an amazing invention!! And certainly one we wouldn’t want to live without. Every household in America has at least one flushable toilet. Just imagine how far we have come over the years. 4800 years ago in the Orkeny Islands just north of Scotland and in the Indus River Valley people had toilets. These toilets did not flush with water but used gravity to carry waste to the outside of dwellings through drains. Around 2000 B.C. the palace of Crete had an elaborate system of plumbing, including a toilet that seems to have been flushed with water. |
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In 1596 an Englishman named Sir John Harington developed a flush
toilet, or water closet, for Queen Elizabeth I. In 1775 an English watchmaker
named Alexander Cummings improved the design; his toilet was the first to
include a water trap in the exiting pipe that stopped odors from backing into
the toilet room. By the 1800s, new refinements by English plumber Thomas Crapper
and others made the inner workings of the toilet similar to those in use today.