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Toilets

Toilets have made a big difference in our economy. Toilets were first made by the Indus Valley Association, around 2500 B.C. They were equipped with wooden seats, and drained by way of fired-brick sewage channels, complete with manhole covers. Five centuries later the Minoan civilization, the palace of Knossos was the first flush toilet.

People threw their waste out of the window, and went down the street so they called for a new invention, or a reinvention of the flush toilet. An attempt was made by Thomas Brightfield of London in 1449, but failed. A man considered father of the flush toilet John Harrington, who in 1956 ...

Posted by: Melissa T. Littlefield

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