H. L. Mencken once had a lot of fun writing a fanciful piece about indoor plumbing, in this case the first bathtub, installed in the White House. He claimed that was in 1850, perhaps during the ...

World's First Toilet: Have you ever thought that toilets are one of the most essential parts of our lives? Several notable figures like the great Greek physicist Archimedes reported having great ideas ...

(CNN) — Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world's oldest known flush toilet. Broken parts of the 2,400-year-old lavatory, as well as a bent flush pipe, were unearthed ...

An approximately 2,400-year-old toilet has been discovered in the ruins of a palace in China. Institute of Archaeology See more of our coverage in your search results. It was a flush down memory lane.

Today we deal with a question of profound importance: When, where and by whom was the first flush toilet installed in Worcester? Don't expect an easy answer. Until the 1840s, Worcester, like every ...