1778 - Everyday Life
Everyday Life
A water closet patented by Yorkshire engineer Joseph Bramah, 30, has a valve-and-siphon flushing system that will be the basis of all future toilet plumbing (see Cummings, 1775). Bramah's factory at Pimlico will train other engineers and machine-tool inventors, but his flush toilet will not come into wide use for more than a century.
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