How does the toilet work?
The toilet is the device that is used in the bathroom to collect and evacuate human excrement and urine to the septic tank , the cesspit or the sewer , as appropriate to the installation made at the place of use.
The operation of the toilet is very simple. It consists of a large amount of water discharge in a short time, which allows to take the contents of it to the pipes that lead to the aforementioned destinations. This water is usually housed in a place called the backpack of the toilet , which consists of a floating that maintains the optimum level of water for each discharge.
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The installation of the toilet is completed with a drain pipe in the form of an elbow, called a siphon , which produces water inside it, thus preventing the entry of bad odors from the pipes.
The system works very well under normal conditions and is one of the least polluting methods to evacuate excreta. However, there are opportunities in which there are problems with the toilet that are not easy to solve and that require the presence of specialists who perform the work. For example, if the toilet is clogged , it produces as a consequence that the water rises to the edge of the toilet with each discharge, instead of being evacuated by the drain, this is usually produced by the fall of something solid that clogs the siphon.
On the other hand, if the level of the water of the drain rises when the shower or the lavatory is activated, surely the problem is not of the toilet, but of a secondary pipe. In addition, when the sewer is covered , the toilet water passes well with each discharge, but the water rises from the drain.
History of who, how and when it was invented
Behind each going to the toilet , there is a physical phenomenon that makes life easier every day. Its origins are very diffuse, but those who perfected this practice appear in some points of history.
The toilet already appeared in the royal palace of Cnossos , it was a cistern with a cup and drainage channel, which did not have a system of treated water like the one currently developed. Before performing the disposal of these physiological materials, it was in public places, since the drainage networks were for private places.
John Harington
It is the name of the inventor who revolutionized going to the bathroom . In 1597 he made the valve water closet , named it Ajax and settled in the palace of Elizabeth I in Richmond, England .
In 1775 John Cummins took out a patent from a cistern, which was further perfected by Samuel Prosse in 1778, with the ball valve. Seventy years later, in the act of English Public Health, it is forced to put in all the houses a toilet service and in 1890 this practice had already spread throughout Europe.
It is not a fart
A sixteenth-century humanist scholar by the name of Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote a book of etiquette about behaviors for the " bathroom ." There he says that it is impolite to greet someone while urinating or defecating and regarding "letting go," suggests that a cough be dispelled with a cough called "explosive roar", from here comes the "tactic" of simulating a fart with a cough.
The bathroom
It was born in Scotland ten thousand years ago due to the toxicity of human waste. It was installed in some natural source of running water and it was the inhabitants of the Oreadas Islands, off the coast of Scotland, who made the first latrines so as not to have waste near their homes.
Later, in order not to have to leave the house, they adjusted the latrines inside the houses with a primitive channel that directed the waste to the rivers.
Hygiene was very important in the East and in 3,000 BC, the ancient Hindus had bathrooms in their private facilities. In Pakistan, precisely in the Indus Valley, public toilets were found that had clay piping in the brick works, with taps to spill water.
The Minoan royal families in the palace of Cnossos , Crete, for the year 2000 BC, had bathtubs that they filled and emptied with vertical pipes. Then they used ceramics, similar to the current ones. The connections dragged the waste and in addition the toilet had a tank above with water, which was the first water closet with a cistern in history. That cistern collected rainwater, if not filled manually, when discarding that water, it would carry the waste.
In 1,500 BC, the Egyptian aristocrats had copper pipes where cold and hot water passed, the full body bath was a religious ritual, the priests demanded a cold bath a day. The Jews performed these baths, since the Mosaic Law dictated that full body bathing was equal to moral purity.
David and Solomon, from the year one thousand to 930 a. C., built complex public works for the water supply.
Who invented the modern toilet
In 1884 Thomas Crapper made the "floating", which allows to automatically close the flow of water when the tank is full, at present the version of Crapper is still used. The inventor registered nine patents related to the toilet.
Tomas Turifed used porcelain to make the toilets , material that is still used for toilets.
How does a toilet work?
With a drain in the form of an elbow, it retains water in it and forms a closure called siphon that prevents the passage of bad odors, the organic matter is dragged through the discharge of a flow of water in a short time, leaving only clean water in the elbow of the closing.