preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/12/85)
> /* Written 9:07 pm Dec 9, 1985 by jaap@mcvax.UUCP in > ccvaxa:net.general */ Well, in the bay of the Isle of Barra, (West of > Scotland, 57 N, 00:30' W) lies a castle (Kiessimul castle) dated back > to around 1200. It is supposed to have the first flushing toilets. If > the tide came in and out a room was cleaned out as well. ---------- Both at Knossos (on Crete) and at Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, near Rome, I have seen what were described as water flushed sanitary facilities, so I think the idea goes rather farther back than 1200 (Knossos is fifteen centuries or so BC). -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece arpa: preece@gswd-vms