1775 - Everyday Life
Everyday Life
English inventor Alexander Cummings receives the first patent to be issued for a flush toilet, but such devices will not come into common use for more than a century (see Harington, 1596; Bramah, 1778).
Mrs. Thrale and her husband take Doctor Johnson to Paris on his only visit abroad. They visit Fontainebleau and see young Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at dinner.
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