It is commonly believed that Thomas Crapper invented the flushing toilet but this is not true - the first one came along nearly 100 years earlier. 2.

So, who really invented the toilet? The earliest known toilets date back about 5,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. These simple, pit-style potties were lined with a series of long, ...

Modern toilet paper was invented in 1857, when Joseph Gayetty sold medicated paper in packages of flat sheets. Still, most people saw no reason to buy the product when they had free alternatives ...

Today, the toilet paper industry is worth $3.5 billion annually in the US alone, with the average individual working their way through more than 20,000 sheets a year.

The first modern manual flush toilet was invented in England in 1596 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Elizabeth I. Made up of a raised cistern that released water through a downpipe to flush ...

It is commonly believed that Thomas Crapper invented the flushing toilet but this is not true - the first one came along nearly 100 years earlier. 2.

While in the west, toilet paper was invented in the mid-1800s, around three hundred years after the mass production of paper for other purposes. Around the 1870s Thomas Gayetty, ...