- Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…s no supply of running water to flush it. === JF Brondel 1738 === In 1738, JF Brondel introduced the valve type flush toilet. === Alexander Cumming 1775 === Alexander Cumming improved the Brondel valve. Cumming was a watchmaker and mechanicia…
… 'crank valve' in 1778. This sealed the bottom of the bowl. He also devised a float valve system for the cistern. Early toilet bowls were painted cast iron and had no flange on the rim. These discharged into a separate chamber and then into the c…
…ts leaked. Because the valve was unreliable, there had to be an overflow. Although the parts were in a wooden case, the toilet did smell. The 'U-bend', or the water-sealed trap, was invented in 1782. This could replace the outlet valve. Because i…
…n emptying into an S-trap. He popularised public lavatories or 'Retiring Rooms' by installing the first flushing public toilets in the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; over 827,000 people paid attendants one penny to use the 'Wash… - Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
…Pay Toilet :: === John Nevil Maskelyne 1892 === [[1800s]] {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="John_Nevil_Maskelyne.jpg" width="200…
…e="18/5/1917" death_place="London" }} {{toc}} Maskelyne was an English stage magician. He invented the first modern pay toilet in the late 19th century. His door lock for London toilets required the insertion of a penny coin to operate it, hence …
…ircle** and, like **Harry Houdini**, used his skills to dispel the notion of supernatural powers. {{Image url="MaskelyneToiletLock.jpg" class="right" title="Maskelyne Toilet Lock" width="100" }} == Other Interests == The Maskelyne was the first … - Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
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- Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11
…tarch. After several years of financial struggle, **William Colgate & Company ** prospered in the 1820s selling Windsor toilet soaps and Pearl starch. Thirteen years after his death in 1857, the company began selling toothpaste, and in 1893 it in…