When was the toilet invented

Hello! According to the Xijing Miscellaneous Records, the Han Dynasty court made "tiger seeds" out of jade, which were held by the emperor's attendants in case the emperor was at his convenience. This kind of "tiger" is a special appliance called a toilet and a potty by later generations, and it is also the predecessor of the toilet.

It is said that this "tiger child" was also invented by Gaozu Liu Bang who used the crown of Confucianism as a drowning weapon. There is another theory about the invention of the "tiger son", which is also related to the emperor. Legend has it that in the Western Han Dynasty, the "flying general" Li Guang shot the dead crouching tiger, and let people cast a copper drowning device in the shape of a tiger, and put the urine in it, expressing his contempt for the tiger, which is the origin of the name of "Huzi".

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty changed this disrespectful term to "beast" or "horse" because of the name "Li Hu" among his ancestors, and then commonly known as "toilet" and "urinal". The first detailed written record of the toilet was the "wooden horse" in Ouyang Xiu's "Guitianlu II" in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is explained as "wooden toilet" in the "Ciyuan". The toilet bowl used by the ancient Chinese folk was a round wooden barrel with a lid, which was coated with tung oil or fine waterproof vermilion lacquer.

In 1596, the English aristocrat John? Harrington invented the first practical toilet – a wooden seat with a cistern and flush valve. In 1778, the British inventor Joseph?

Brammey improved the design of the flush toilet, incorporating such as a three-ball valve that controls the flow of water in the tank, and a U-shaped elbow. Wooden toilet in Dagobert, France In the 19th century, the British government enacted a law that required every house to be fitted with a proper sewage system, and the toilet began to improve dramatically. In 1861, a British plumber, Thomas?

Klepa invented an advanced water-saving flushing system, and waste discharge began to enter the modern period. In 1885, Thomas? Towweford patented the first all-ceramic toilet in the UK and has since granted dozens of patents for improvements every year.

In Shanghai in the 30s of the 20th century, when the morning light first appeared, many people would rub their sleepy eyes, carry the toilet, and walk out of the house one after another, and then line up in front of a public faucet. In the sixties of the 20th century, flush toilets began to prevail in Europe and the United States, and later spread to Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries. In the early 80s, it was only seen in a high-end hotel in Beijing, but now it is even used in toilets in Beijing.

We hope you will adopt it!

Englishman John Harrington.

Queen Elizabeth I complained about the foul smell of unemptied toilets in her Richmond palace. In 1595, her courtier, Sir John Harrington, came to the rescue. During his travels in Italy, he heard about a fascinating invention, a toilet that flushes off the filth with water.

Harrington's flush toilet was finally installed in Richmond Palace.

Harrington was intrigued by the idea of a book on the flush toilet. But flush toilets are impractical for most people when they don't have any main sewerage pipes, no running water, and no money to pay for plumbing. Most people still clean their empty toilets or let the "night diggers" clean up the filth, and it's still business as usual.

The English inventor Joseph Bramme improved the design of the flush toilet in the late 18th century. He used components such as a three-ball valve that controls the flow of water in the tank, and a U-bend that ensures that the smell of the sewer pipe does not allow the user to connect to it. He patented this flush toilet in 1778.

It wasn't until the late 19th century, when European towns and cities had installed sewage systems with water pipes, that most people had access to flush toilets. Right: An important feature of a flush toilet is the S-shaped pipe, or drain bend in the sewer, which always holds some water.

This water acts as a gasket that covers the odor.

Even large cities like London were not providing drainage until the sixties of the 19th century, when many people first enjoyed the benefits of flush toilets. And that's more than 300 years after Harrington's invention.