To take a quick dive into the history of the toilet, I chatted with design historian and author Maile Pingel along with a few ...

The toilet is simply a fixture that is used to deposit human waste. Nowadays toilets are composed of a bowl like feature at the bottom, with a hinged round seat at the top. Once solid or liquid ...

Image caption, The history of toilets goes back a lot further than this roll of paper. In Ancient Egypt, around 3100 BC, having an indoor toilet showed a wealthy status. If you were rich ...

the United States' toilet bowl -- known for its seasonal "dead zones," high erosion rates, dirty industry, ingrained poverty and, now, for the biggest oil disaster in the history of the country.

Welsh poet Ifor Ap Glyn has a passionate interest in the toilet its history and how it has evolved over the centuries right up to the development of the current design Here he explains the reasons ...