Why your toilet needs reinvention
BBCWhy your toilet needs reinvention Will the toilet as we know it ever be replaced? In 1596, Sir John Harrington published his “Ajax” design, a precursor of the modern flush toilet installed as a second throne for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I. The NoMix toilet separates faeces and urine So why haven’t NoMix toilets caught on yet? One downside of NoMix toilets is that men must pee sitting down, and women must aim Why is it so hard to introduce new types of toilet? We have to be wiped clean of it… I think just the idea that it’s done in private makes it something that seems shameful if exposed.” Perhaps we won’t always resist the replacement of our porcelain flushers with something new: after all, centuries ago the idea of an indoor toilet was initially shunned too.
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