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 Ash-pit privy, Bathroom, Bog, Cesspit, Closet, Commode, Dunny,
Gents, Garderobes, Kazzy, Ladies, Lavatory, Little Boys/Girls Room,
Loo, Point Percy at the Porcelain, Pot, Potties, Powder room, Privy,
Restroom, Room 100, Spending a penny, The Jakes, The John, Toilet,
Throne, lavatories.
If you know any more names let me know :)-
Unlike other body functions, going to the toilet is considered very
lowly. As a result very few scholars documented precisely the toilet
habits of our predecessors. There was a English noble origin to the
water closet in its earliest days. Sir John Harrington, godson to
Queen Elizabeth I, set about making a "necessary" for his godmother
and himself in 1596.
Harrington ended his career with this invention, for he was
ridiculed by his peers for this absurd device. 200 years passed
before another would reinvent Harrington's water closet, Alexander
Cummings invented the s-trap, a sliding valve between the bowl and
the trap. Then 2 years later in 1777, Samuel Prosser with his
plunger closet. Then Joseph Bramah with a valve at the bottom.
Thomas Twyford revolutionized the water closet business in 1885 when
he built the first trap less toilet in a one-piece. His toilet was
all china.
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