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Thomas Crapper Branding on one of his company's toilets In the 1880s Prince Albert (later Edward VII ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant .
Unisex toilets sign. This image is from a collection commissioned by the United States Department of Transportation and designed by AIGA. Date: 2007: Source: It is copyright-free, and is available here. Converted from EPS to SVG. Author: AIGA: Other versions: Raster version: Aiga toilets.png Derivative works of this file: Family 3.svg ...
{{Toilet icon|width|alt text}} Both the parameters are optional. The width is in pixels, and should be followed by px. For example, {{Toilet icon|20px}} produces the symbol at 20 pixels wide: . If the width parameter is omitted, the default width is 15 pixels. The alt text is the text that screen readers will see.
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The use of "toilet" to describe a special room for grooming came much later (first attested in 1819), following the French cabinet de toilet. Similar to "powder room", "toilet" then came to be used as a euphemism for rooms dedicated to urination and defecation, particularly in the context of signs for public toilets, as on trains.
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, [2] audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips , the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963.
A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (i.e., urine and feces) by collecting it in a bowl and then using the force of water to channel it ("flush" it) through a drainpipe to another location for treatment, either nearby or at a communal facility.