Monthly Archives: February 2012

First patent for a modern toilet was granted in 1775 to Alexander Cummings, not to Sir Thomas Crapper as some may have you believe.

But the toilet has been around for a long time. King Minos of Crete had the first flushing toilet recorded in history, more than twenty eight hundred years ago. A toilet was discovered in the tomb of a Chinese king of the Western Han Dynasty, which dates back to 206 BCE to 24 AD.

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