Plumbing Timeline

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8000 B.C.

The Great Flood. Everything in the world submerged Not a victory for plumbing.

6000 B.C.

Water stored in large pottery jars in Mesopotamia hand-carried from rivers by slaves.

2500 B.C.

Sitting type toilets appear in the Harappa civilization (now India). Harap-pan art also very nice.

2255 B.C.

Chinese Emperor Yao orders Gun, father of Xia Yu, to tame the flooding of the rivers. Gun falls and is executed. Xia Yu nervously continues his father's work.father's work.

3000 B.C.

Egyptian ruler, Menes, sets the stage for a civilization that lasts 3,000 years with the construction of canals, irrigation ditches and basins to contain flood water.contain flood water.

2700 B.C.

Indus Valley Civili-zation: water pipes made of clay and finely chopped straw.

2100 B.C.

Toilets In Egypt with seats made of stone. Belleving the dead required food, clothing and other daily essen-tials in the afterlife, Egyptians install bath-rooms in tombs.

1500 B.C.

The ancient people of Crete create elaborate systems of sewage disposal and drainage with underground chan-nels and early versions of flush toilets. Incred-ible!

705 B.C.

Earliest aqueduct on record thanks to Assyrian king and master builder, Sen-nacherib, Who ruled with "a heart of wrath."

432 B.C.

The latest plumbing innovation - bath-tubs in northern Greece. Plumbers toy with a new ma-terial: lead.

800 B.C.

First sewers of Rome built. Called the Cloaca Maxima an advance for the gluteus maximus.

710 B.C.

Sargon the Great, Assyrian king, Invents the shower by having slaves on ladders pour water over him.

206 B.C.

In China, the world's earliest water closet for Han, the king of the Western Han Dynasty. Comforts include running water, a stone seat and an armrest.

52 A.D.

Height of Roman aque-duct achievement:220 miles of water channels, including arched overhead sec-tions up to 160 ft, high, powered by gravity and carrying 300 gallons of fresh water for every citizen. System also citizen. System also includes lead pipes, though by some to hastened the fall of Rome by poisoning its upper classes.

1596

Eureka! A toilet renais-sance as Sir John Harington builds the first modern *water closet* for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth. Con-traption includes a seat, a bowl and behind it a cistern of water.

1775

Prototype for the modern toilet. Eng-lishman Alexander Cummings solves the odor problem with standing water in the bowl.

600

First documented use of toilet paper in medieval China. Later, po'folk in America would use catalog pages for the same purpose.

700-1500

The dark ages of plumbing and human hygiene. An era of cesspools, disease and human excreta all around.

1829

Plumbing innova-tion shifts America. Tremont Hotel in Boston the world's first hotel to have indoor plumbing.

1870

America pioneers the idea of sanitary plumb-ing as the New York Metropolitan Board of Health studies drain-age, sewage, water supply and waste disposal.

1885

Chicago has the first comprehen-sive sewer com-prehensive sewer system in the country.

1915-1919

American serviceman saw the name Thomas Crapper & Co, stamped on the toilets in Europe. These same servicemen build the plumbing infrastructure of infrastructure of America in the 1920s and 30s. The word "crapper" enters the American lexicon.