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A Short History Of
The Toilet
Toilets are an essential
part of our everyday lives. We tend to take the toilet very much for
granted and not really like to think about it too much until we find
that we desperately need a toilet and none can be found. We forget
that modern toilets are a luxury in a lot of under developed
countries and find it a huge inconvenience if our toilet doesn’t
work.
Toilets that we are used to using are a relatively recent invention,
and used to be only affordable by the very wealthy. Even now the
evolution of the toilet is still in progress with technological
advances including automatic flushing controlled by sensors and
economy settings to allow less water to be used when the toilet
fills up. The issue of hygiene is a constant one and, along with all
the different types of toilet cleaners and fragranced deodorizers
there are even public toilets that clean
themselves after each visit.
The prevalence of indoor plumbing has been the main factor in the
availability of toilets inside our homes. It is this plumbing that
ensures the toilet keeps functioning correctly and we don’t have to
do anything more than pull the chain or press the handle. Before
this all toilets were separate from the main house in small
outhouses. The water supply that these outhouses were connected to
was totally detached from the ones used inside the house.
Toilets in outhouses began in a very basic fashion, a hole in the
ground. Then seats were fashioned from planks of wood with openings
in them to enable a person to dispose of their toilet waste while
sitting rather than squatting. These primitive toilet facilities
were then enclosed to provide a little privacy for the occupants.
Wealthy house owners could use chamber pots in the privacy and
comfort of their own bedrooms, or bed chambers. These were usually
made from ceramic and were emptied by servants. As these pots became
a more accepted method of going to the toilet there were fewer
places to empty them, especially in towns and cities, and people
would throw the contents out of their windows onto the streets.
Thankfully we have progressed a long way since the days if having to
dodge the contents of someone’s toilet being thrown over our heads
as we walked along the street.
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