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    Toilets with flushing systems have existed since ancient civilizations like the Indus Valley civilization from 2600-1900 BC and Minoan civilization from 2000-1600 BC, who built sewage systems and used water to flush toilets. However, it was not until the late 19th century that flushing toilets became common, and various inventors in the 16th-18th centuries like Sir John Harrington, Alexander Cumming, and Joseph Brahmah improved early designs of flushing lavatories and cisterns. By the late 19th century, public toilets with flushing systems opened in cities like London, but access to hygienic toilets remains limited in many poor

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    Toilets with flushing systems have existed since ancient civilizations like the Indus Valley civilization from 2600-1900 BC and Minoan civilization from 2000-1600 BC, who built sewage systems and used water to flush toilets. However, it was not until the late 19th century that flushing toilets became common, and various inventors in the 16th-18th centuries like Sir John Harrington, Alexander Cumming, and Joseph Brahmah improved early designs of flushing lavatories and cisterns. By the late 19th century, public toilets with flushing systems opened in cities like London, but access to hygienic toilets remains limited in many poor

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    Toilets in The Ancient World

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    Toilets with flushing systems have existed since ancient civilizations like the Indus Valley civilization from 2600-1900 BC and Minoan civilization from 2000-1600 BC, who built sewage systems and used water to flush toilets. However, it was not until the late 19th century that flushing toilets became common, and various inventors in the 16th-18th centuries like Sir John Harrington, Alexander Cumming, and Joseph Brahmah improved early designs of flushing lavatories and cisterns. By the late 19th century, public toilets with flushing systems opened in cities like London, but access to hygienic toilets remains limited in many poor

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    Toilets in the Ancient World

    c.2,600-1,900 BC
    In the Indus Valley civilization
    (c.2,600-1,900 BC) streets were built
    on a grid pattern and networks of
    sewers were dug under them. Toilets
    were flushed with water.
    2,000 to 1,600 BC.
    • On the island of Crete the Minoan civilization
    flourished from 2,000 to 1,600 BC. They too
    built drainage systems, which also took
    sewage. Toilets were flushed with water.
    1596
    • In 1596 Sir John Harrington invented a
    flushing lavatory with a cistern.
    1775 - 1778.
    • However in 1775 Alexander Cumming was
    granted a patent for a flushing lavatory.
    • Joseph Brahmah made a better design in
    1778.
    Siglo 19th
    • However flushing toilets were a luxury at first
    and they did not become common till the late
    19th century. Also popular in the 19th century
    were earth closets.
    1852
    • The first modern public lavatory, with flushing
    toilets opened in London in 1852.
    1892
    • In 1892 John Nevil Maskelyne invented the
    coin operated lock for toilets.
    Toilets Today
    • Today in rich countries we take toilets for
    granted yet in poor countries millions of
    people do not have hygienic toilets.

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