When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: royal flush portable toilets virginia beach menu

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. George Jennings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jennings

    George Jennings. George Jennings (10 November 1810 – 17 April 1882) was an English sanitary engineer and plumber who invented the first public flush toilets. Josiah George Jennings was born on 10 November 1810 in Eling, at the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire. He was the eldest of seven children of Jonas Joseph Jennings and Mary Dimmock.

  3. Joseph Bramah - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bramah

    hydraulic press. Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 [1] – 9 December 1814) was an English inventor and locksmith. He is best known for having improved the flush toilet and inventing the hydraulic press. Along with William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, he can be considered one of the two fathers of hydraulic engineering.

  4. Sloan Valve Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Valve_Company

    The company was founded by William Elvis Sloan in Chicago, Illinois in 1906 with the introduction of the Royal flushometer, a valve to release a measured amount of water to flush a urinal or toilet. Initial sales were very poor: only a single Royal model flushometer was sold in 1906, and two in 1907. Sales improved dramatically in 1908, to 150 ...

  5. Chamber pot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_pot

    Chamber pot. Japanese chamber pot from the Edo period. Chamber pot in Westerwald ceramics, early 18th century. Archeological find from Bruges. A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom. It was common in many cultures before the advent of indoor plumbing and flushing toilets.

  6. Chemical toilet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_toilet

    A chemical toilet collects human excreta in a holding tank and uses chemicals to minimize odors. They do not require a connection to a water supply and are used in a variety of situations. These toilets are usually, but not always, self-contained and movable. A chemical toilet is structured around a relatively small tank, which requires ...

  7. John Harington (writer) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harington_(writer)

    Isabella Markham (mother) Sir John Harington (4 August 1560 – 20 November 1612), of Kelston, Somerset, England, but born in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet. [1] He became prominent at Queen Elizabeth I 's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson", but his poetry and ...

  1. Ads

    related to: royal flush portable toilets virginia beach menu