History of Toilets: Neolithic Era, Ancient Greek Bathrooms, and Toilet Evolution
The earliest toilets have been uncovered and dated by archaeologists back to the neolithic period. The ancient Greeks created public bathrooms and today we have the luxuries of indoor plumbing, odor suppression and more.
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Today's Daily Dose short educational film covers the history of toilets, which dates back to 3,000 B.C. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:
Today on The Daily Dose, The History of Toilets.
While archeologists have uncovered 4,000-year-old drainage systems in northern India that may be some of the earliest known toilets, Neolithic settlements in Scotland as far back as 3000 B.C. are generally known as the first humans to create toilets, followed by the ancient Greeks in the Palace of Knossos in 1700 B.C., employing large earthenware pans connected to a flush-out water supply. By 315 A.D., however, the Romans turned going to the bathroom into a social event, employing upwards of 144 toilets in a dedicated room, where Romans would wipe themselves with a sponge affixed to a short wooden handle, giving rise to the phase “getting hold of the wrong end of the stick.”
By the Middle Ages, the British employed “potties” or bed pans, whose contents were simply thrown out windows into the street below, while the more affluent employed a “garderobe,” which was a small room suspended over a moat. Potties and Garderobes were soon replaced by a “commode,” consisting of a box with a whole in the top, combined with a copper pot below to catch the waste, and while Thomas Crapper is frequently cited as the inventor of the flush toilet in the 1860s, the true inventor was Sir John Harrington, the godson of Elizabeth the 1st, who invented a similar system in 1592. During the Industrial Revolution of 19th century Europe, sewage in overcrowded cities spilled into rivers and streets at random, contaminating drinking water and leading to mass outbreaks of filth diseases, such as cholera, typhoid, typhus and diphtheria, leading to the introduction of modern sewage sanitation systems that eliminated many pandemics of the 19th century.
Today, toilets come in a wide selection of designs that frequently combine art, technology and function, including odor-extracting toilets, self-cleaning toilets, touch-less opening and closing lids, automatic deodorant dispensers, built-in front and rear bidets, UV light sanitation systems, built-in warm-air driers and more, making the history of toilets, a moving advance in the history of human biology.
And there you have it, the history of toilets, today on The Daily Dose.