The toilet
Around 7 to 10 times per day this device is a time saver. Ok, we may not think much of this old porcelain toilet as much, but r eality says other. This device gets flushed an average of 3,000 per person per year. The toilet has made such headways since dating back to around 3000 BC and around 1700 BC the Greeks made a kind of flushing toilet. Not until 1775 a Scottish inventor Alexander Cumming put the first patent for a flush toilet. This great innovation was the first of its kind with a trap in below the bowl so sewer gases wouldn't escape. The first modern flushable toilet was described in 1596 by Sir John Harington, and of course, others have come up with other types of designs and ways for the waste to be well jetted away. In many parts of Asia and Europe, there is a squat toilet that is used both as a more (energy water saver) way to wash the undercarriage with water and not worry about toilet paper. The standards of toilets have changed because of water consumption and ...