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Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers: A History of the Bathroom
Par Penny Colman
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A fascinating, lively account of toilets, tubs, and sanitation systems with intriguingly catchy chapter titles from "Splish, Splash, the First Bath," "The Queen's Toilet," "Ugh, Gross!" to "Bathrooms Beyond Belief." Award-winning author, Penny Colman traces the fascinating history of the bathroom, starting thousands of years ago on the Orkney Islands of Scotland where hollowed-out slabs of stone with a crude drain served as the first indoor bathroom, to the ancient Egyptian city of Tel el Amarna where in 1370 B.C. there were limestone toilet seats and stone bathtubs; to the years when people in western Europe didn't pay any attention to sewage disposal or bathing; to the International Space Station where a water regeneration system distills, filters, ionizes and oxidizes wastewater, including urine, into freshwater for drinking. A list of "Ten Facts About Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers" includes the fact that Albert Einstein once said that if he had it to do all over again, he would become a plumber. The book includes an extensive bibliography and webliography.
À propos de l'auteur
Penny Colman is an award-winning author of books, essays, and articles. Her books include Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II and Adventurous Women: Eight True Stories About Women Who Made a Difference. Her book, Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial was named a ?Best of the Best Books for the 21st Century? by the American Library Association. She has appeared on television and radio. Colman is a Distinguished Lecturer, Queens College, The City University of New York. www.pennycolman.com
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Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers - Penny Colman
Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks and Sewers:
The History of The Bathroom
By Penny Colman
Copyright © 2011 by Penny Colman
http://www.pennycolman.com
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Cover photograph: kobi & yael from Israel (השירות הטוב ביותר) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons from Wikimedia Commons
The quotes in the text in the order in which they appear were taken from the following secondary sources, which are listed in the bibliography: Mazzurco (1986); Wright (1960); Wright(1960): Mazzurco (1986); Hibbert (1986); Wright(1960); Plumbing and Mechanical (1993) Chicago Daily News 1939) Domestic Engineering (1981)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter One: Splish, Splash, The First Bath
Chapter Two: Seats and Sewers
Chapter Three: The Queen's Toilet
Chapter Four: The Empire's Baths
Chapter Five: Downs and Ups of Sanitation
Chapter Six: Ugh, Gross
Chapter Seven: Lots of Pigs
Chapter Eight: Bathrooms Beyond Belief
Ten Facts About Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks and Sewers
Bibliography
Webliography
PREFACE
I didn’t start thinking about the history of the bathroom until I took a white water rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The trip lasted thirteen days and it was my first experience of living life without a bathroom. We used river water and biodegradable soap for cleaning ourselves. We spit toothpaste into the fast moving water. We urinated on the wet sand or in the river.
Every night we camped along the river, and the guides set up a toilet behind a boulder or tree. The toilet was actually a surplus military ammunition can with a toilet seat balanced across the top. A large, green garbage bag was placed inside the ammunition can. In the morning, the guides sealed the bag, lifted it out, carried it to a baggage raft, and placed it in a large metal container that would be carried out of the canyon at the end of the trip. Don't pee in the toilet or drop in sharp objects,
said the guides. Urine makes it too heavy and you can imagine the mess if a sharp object pokes through the bag.
If we needed a toilet during the day, the guides provided a day tripper,
a small ammunition can with a small plastic bag and no toilet seat. Using it required flexibility, balance, and urgency.
The first and only time I used the day tripper,
I said to myself, There’s got to be a story here!
There was, and here it is: TOILETS, BATHTUBS, SINKS, AND SEWERS: THE HISTORY OF THE BATHROOM.
Chapter One
SPLISH, SPLASH, THE FIRST BATH
There is no truer sign of civilization in culture than
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