losttreasure -> RE: Men,Women, and the Toilet Seat Question: Answered (9/22/2006 1:56:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956 FirmhandKY: You have way too much free time. Do you work for the Federal Government? And btw, Thomas Crapper probably did refine indoor plumbing. He probably did not invent what our Brit friends call the w.c. E According to one notation I found, seated toilets with drainage systems date back to 2500 BC, though I agree that indoor plumbing has most likely improved since then. [;)] From The Toilet Museum, "...the fact is, nobody knows exactly who invented the toilet, but the general consensus is that it was not Thomas Crapper. While toilets date back to ancient times, the modern toilet can be more accurately traced back to Sir John Harrington, who described a waste disposal system in the Metamorphosis of Ajax in the 16th century. Some accounts of Thomas Crapper's life indicate that he patented the flush toilet in 1861, but Adam Hart-Davis, author of Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper, discovered that, while Thomas Crapper filed for a total of six patents, the earliest being filed in 1881, not one of them was for a flush toilet." Oh, and the above Sir John Harrington is credited with inventing the water closet in 1596. [;)] As a side note, I've always loved the way the French pronouce the abbreviation for "water closet" (doobel-vay-say). It sounds much nicer than to asking, "Où est la toilette?"
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