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Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) - Blackmailing Liz-Intro to Barnabas-Kidnapping Maggie-Intro to Julia / Re: Episode #0291
« on: May 08, 2007, 02:50:43 AM »
I know some fans love to make fun that the Old House had an outhouse. However, I can't go one more second without pointing out that (and this isn't directed at any one fan in particular because several have been guilty ):
- The flush toilet was invented in 1596 by John Harrington
- First valve-type flush toilet was introduced in 1738 by a man named J.F. Brondel (J.F. Bronde)
- Alexander Cummings invented the Strap, a sliding valve between the bowl and the trap in 1775.
- Samuel Prosser applied for and received a patent for a plunger toilet in 1777.
- Joseph Bramah altered the design in 1778 so that it had a valve at the bottom of the bowl that worked on a hinge, a predecessor to the modern ballcock.