Who Invented the Flushing Toilet

First toilet ever in the world. Thomas Crapper & Co. Alexander Cumming

Alexander Cumming patented the flushing device in 1755, the forerunner of the toilet in use today. Two hundred years prior to Alexander Cumming, Sir John Harington invented a ...

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HomeStyle Forum » Toilet Shopping, Part II

Caroma invented the product and is the only manufacturer to test their dual flush toilets on the half flush. Only Caroma has a 4″ trap which can flush a baseball.

http://www.homestyleforum.com/index.php/2008/02/14/toilet-shopping-part-ii/

The Dual Flush Toilet - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

... dual flush toilet ... have invented, patented (in many countries), and manufacture a product that is a simple toilet tank handle retrofit (remove and replace). For a liquidwaste flush ...

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/the_dual_flush_toilet.php

Compressed Data; No Silly Jokes. Just Facts About Toilet Paper. - New ...

... the site's link to the Toilet Paper Encyclopedia, a compendium of facts like where and when toilet paper made its first appearance (China, 1391), and who invented the flush toilet ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7DE133AF931A25750C0A9679C8B63

Blog : TOILET TRAINING

... or economic deprivation or due to unadulterated racism will not know how to use a flush toilet. Until Sir Thomas Crapper invented the modern float-ball flapper-valve flush toilet ...

http://seniorfriendfinder.com/blog/4890/post_77881.html?highid=1570105_49657&passthru_override=1

Toilet Inventions: A Restroom Revolution

... the subject might make some people squeamish, the toilet is ... probably been the butt of jokes ever since it was invented. ... part of the history of human hygiene, and that's no flush ...

http://www.inventhelp.com/toilet-inventions.asp

WSU | Ask Dr. Universe | Questions and Answers

Dear Dr. Universe, Do you know who invented the "Flush Toilet"? Several ancient flush toilets have been found by archeologists.

http://druniverse.wsu.edu/QandA.asp?questionID=9921

Gadgets and Style - How things Work

Her Godson, Sir John Harrington, invented a flushing toilet for her in 1596. When millions in Europe died from cholera in 1832, people began to realize that poor sanitary ...

http://www.memorystore.org.uk/gadgets/how.html

Randomness: A History of Toilets

1890 – The cantilever toilet is invented. It involves a tank that is hung on the wall above the bowl to use gravity to flush. 1928 - Charmin is introduced.

http://severtski.com/2006/04/history-of-toilets.html

System for ordering items using an electronic catalogue - US Patent ...

that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and ...

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5319542.html

BBC - h2g2 - The Development of Toilets and Sanitation

There's a frequently told myth about a certain Thomas Crapper having invented the flush-type toilet. It's not true, he worked on certain developments on the piping of toilets, but ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A604289

flushmax.com

Some paintings and writings by Max Levine. Primary themes are toilets, self-portraits ... invented

http://www.flushmax.com/

Automatic Flushing Toilets (or ATF's) | BlogHer

I can't stand these. Whoever invented these ought to be shot. For you germaphobes.....grow a pair and use your foot like the rest of us to flush a toilet. Or, grab some tp and use ...

http://www.blogher.com/automatic-flushing-toilets-or-atfs

Invention of the toilet

Simple toilets have been used since Babylonian times but the modern toilet was invented by a watchmaker

http://www.didyouknow.org/toilets.htm

Sir John Harington -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Sir John Harington:English Elizabethan courtier, translator, author, and wit who also invented the flush toilet.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/255314/Sir-John-Harington