History of toilet (If you use it, you have to know at least few things about it!)
We all use it many times during a day. Have you ever asked yourself, how it came to this? We all have our toilets within walls of our home to flush our daemons out of it! Well, I think that you should know something about the history of toilets to have more respect for it.
Did you know that they had a toilet in Pakistan, almost 5000 years ago?
It was built in outer walls of houses and connected to street drains. Few centuries later, they even had water - cleaning toilets, so the water removed the waste in one of the first examples of sewer ever! They had first the water supply and sanitation in Indus Valley.
In Europe, we had first water - cleaning toilets in Orkney, Scotland.
After that, toilet started to appear in Ancient Crete, Egypt and Persia (18 century BC).
Romans had public toilets and they were unusual because they were using it to urinate by sitting on it. But Romans took the system of sewer to higher level.
In China, two thousand years ago, they used pig toilet. It was a dry toilet (not water - cleaning one), connected to a pigsty. I guess that they used pigs for more purposes...
In medieval, they called it garderobe.
It was just a hole on the floor connected to a cesspit. And many houses had their own cesspits. People would do their nasty things in a pot, and later spill it in the hole in garderobe. In Victorian era, the lords and ladies would do everything in the pots and put the pot under the bed. In the morning, housemaid would pick up all pots from the bedrooms and clean it in the garderobe. That was probably the reason of cholera epidemics in the middle of 19th century.
In that period, an English clergyman, Henry Moule invented dry toiled. It was just a hole in the floor of garderobe and people had to do their needs directly in the hole.
In late 19 century, the flush - toilets became very popular. It was first designed at the end of 16th century but didn't become widespread next 300 years.
Best toilet is the desert! You just dig a little and then cover your crap afterwards with sand. The ultra-violet rays and heat of the sun will disinfect everything afterwards.
But what to use instead of toilet paper?
wipe with stones...lol
@darthnava, I'm wanting to try me some stones now. I hope it's a clean break.
Well, that's what desert people use out in the desert if water, paper or leaves are scarce. I hope it doesn't cause any rash.
people here used to use leaves of fig - tree and wine
Interesting. You should have come out with this post on 19 November when I posted about World Toilet Day. :-)
December 10 is humans rights day, I am more crazy about that than Christmas. Toilet is one of human rights
@dumar022, imagine life without the modern toilet. indoor plumbing has to be one of man's greatest creations. Send poop somewhere outside of home, from the comfort of home. Steem On Dude!
well, that's the most significant difference between animals and us! thank you @runridefly
Very interesting post. Thank you! We had an outhouse until I was 10 so I definitely appreciate the modern John. Lol. Outdoor privies are also a good hunting grounds for those into metal detecting. Or so I've heard...
hahaha, thank you
I'm feeling more educated now lol. Great post!
thank you @sarahewaring
Amusing history lesson, thanks for that! Man I'm glad I didn't live in the medieval era.
thank you, I am also grateful for modern days toilets!
lol I was watching three days ago the museum of history of toilets and now you post this :D
and first toilet used as art piece was Duchamp's Fountain.
This topic never fails to amuse me lol
wooow, that looks nice for long reading of newspapers... ;;;;))))
hahahhahha ;)
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