AUGUSTO GÓMEZ SERRANO - SANTAFÉ DE BOGOTÁ (Colombia)
A topic as any other, unless more important. More than 4.000 years ago the cretenses already applied in the real palace of Gnossos kind of a toilet. It consisted of a cistern, tazal and drainage channel, but the progress of the nets was slow.
Alone the sewers have served to deprived home for two centuries. During four millennia the urinals were overturned to the street, previous warning.
The eminent persons of the hygienic change were: Mainly the English John Harington (poet) who in 1597 development the water valve closet that I baptize Ajax and it was installed in Isabel's palace I in Richmond.
In 1775 John Cummins a w.c patented. of cistern, perfected in 1778 by Samuel Prosse with its spherical valve. Seventy years later, by virtue of the records of Health Public Englishwoman, he put under an obligation to install in all the houses that were built a toilet service. Toward 1890 it had already triumphed in all Europe.
The device has received in the world all type of denominations, often extended to the local in that he/she settles.
The English peasants continued calling it john, in homage to the English poet, John Harington that undoubtedly was their precursor.
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