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Since there are so many different advances in "indoor Plumbing" recorded from many time periods it is hard to be precise. I found this webiste to be of much help. http://www.theplumber.com/H_index.html Hope this helps to answer. -JRB- The earliest identifiable flushing toilets have been found in the ruins of the palace of King Minos on the island of Crete, circa 1500 B.C. Rain water or water from cisterns traveled though conduits built into the wall to flush away the waste from a master bathroom presumably belonging to the monarch, as well as several other toilets located within palace walls. Ruins of homes in ancient Egypt display small private, detached rooms presumably used as dumbasses. Waste apparently was carried away by water running through man-made channels from nearby rivers. It was left to the classical Greek and Roman civilizations to bring a degree of sanitation to the masses, or at least the upper middle classes. Excavations at Olynthus in northern Greece, destroyed by Philip of Macedon in 432 B.C., attest to tiled bathrooms and self-draining tubs. Their underground piping has disappeared, suggesting it was constructed of primitive clay and straw. However, one uncovered tub was repaired with lead clamps, hinting that Greek plumbers had begun at least toying with this new material. Bathing in ancient Greece was related more to quackery than sanitation. Hippocrates, the �Father of Medicine,� advocated cold water baths as a cure for almost any ill. Using hot water was considered effeminate, which was fine with milady, as evidenced by portable earthenware tubs for warm water soaking. Many houses in ancient Greece were equipped with closets or latrines that drained into a sewer beneath the street. They seemed to have been flushed by waste water, and some of the sewers were fitted with ventilating shafts. The Greeks were careful to safeguard their water supplies against enemy attacks. Aqueducts generally were laid underground up to a depth of 60 feet. Water supplies were directed to storage cisterns that fed into a multitude of street fountains, some of which are still in use today. No society of old advanced plumbing technology as much as the Roman Empire. As long ago as 800 B.C. the Romans built enormous sewers to drain waste from the city. The Cloaca Maxima was Imperial Rome�s main drainage trunk. Amazingly, it remains in use today as part of modern Rome�s drainage system. Public lavatories date back just as far, with water constantly running beneath the latrines to wash the waste into Rome�s sewer system. A little later came their great aqueducts that still stand in parts of Italy, France and Spain. Some were still in use until recent times. They are among the most imposing Roman engineering achievements, bringing water from mountain streams as far as 50 miles away, sometimes channeling underground, sometimes rising on piers. I recently watched a series about the Roman Empire on The Learning Channel, which reported that the volume of water transported to Rome back in imperial times was not surpassed by that city until the 1950s.

Indoor plumming was invented in circa 1500 B.C.

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A guy by the name of Crapper, YES, that WAS his name. Crapper Actually, Thomas Crapper is only credited with inventing an indoor toilet in Elizabethan times. This is disputed by most reputable historians. The first flushing toilet, and plumbing system was in the Minoan royal palace of Knossos on the island of Crete in about 1700 - 1000 BC

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Wikipedia says, " 26th century BC: Flush toilets were first used in the Indus Valley Civilization. The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro had a flush toilet in almost every house, attached to a sophisticated sewage system." Let's see, about 4600 years ago.

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I believe it was Thomas Krapper

The flushing toilet was invented by John Harrington in 1596. Joseph Bramah of Yorkshire patented the first practical water closet in England in 1778. Edward Jennings in 1852 also took out a patent for the flush-out toilet.

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There are many examples of plumbing dating back to ancient times in Babylon.

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The very first instance of indoor plumbing in the United States was in 1829. Isaiah Rogers built the innovative Tremont Hotel, the first building to have indoor plumbing.

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It wasn't until 1775 that modern indoor plumbing was invented. It also wasn't until the mid 1800's when it became a luxury item that was finally available to the wealthy.

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The first signs of plumbing date back as far as 8000 B.C. in Scotland where evidence has been found of indoor plumbing pipes or troughs that carried water and wastes out to a nearby creek.

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