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Eugene's Lair posted:

 

 

 

[BTW: Wiki disagrees with Stephen as to the Chinese being the first to invent it, with the ancient Orcadians going back over 5000 years! 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...flush_toilet_systems ]

 

I don't know what answer will be acceptable  Eugene.  Sir John Harington was the first to invent a flushing loo but never patented it.  Alexander Cumming  patented the flushing loo a couple of hundred years later...it's a complicated question indeed. 

Dame_Ann_Average
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