Sunday, August 31, 2014

Why your toilet needs reinvention

Why your toilet needs reinvention

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. Then in 1775, Alexander Cummings patented the S-trap, a design innovation that persists …
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A Great Product Idea Undone by Human Factors: The NoMix Toilet

We think of them as the same thing—human waste—but in fact they are not mixed within the body and shouldn't be mixed afterwards, though we often do so out of convenience and the design of modern toilets. The reason they shouldn't mix is because urine …
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Why your toilet needs reinvention

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