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Just for fun, check out the plumbers of history:
3000 B.C. Egypt builds basins to contain flood water and digs canals and irrigation ditches to reclaim marshes.
2500 B.C. The Middle East has an extensive system of dikes, canals, and sluices. They were used until the Roman occupation.
1700 B.C. The Minoan Palace of Knossos on the Isle of Crete featured 4 separate drainage systems that emptied into stone sewers. Terra Cotta pipe beneath the floors provided water fountains and hot and cold faucets. It also had the first flushing toilet!
1500 B.C. Moses instructs his people to bury their human waste away from camp during the 40 years of Exodus.
1200 B.C. Jerusalem had water tunnels from the city that tapped into a water source just outside the city walls.
800 B.C. to 735 B.C. The first Roman sewers were built. The ancient sewer The Cloaca Maxima is still in use today!
312 B.C. The first Roman aqueduct was built. It spanned 11 miles and was used to transport water to the city.
52 A.D. The Roman aqueduct system has 220 miles of channels and carries about 300 gallons of water for every citizen of the city.
4th Century Rome has 11 public baths, 1,352 public fountains & cisterns, and 856 private baths.
1596 Sir John Harrington builds the Ajax water closet a toilet for Queen Elizabeth I. She uses it but he was publicly ridiculed for the idea and never built another
1775 Alexander Cummings receives the first patient for a modern toilet.
1848 England passes the Public Heath Act, The worlds leading plumbing code. It requires every house to have a flushing toilet, privy or ash pit.
1931 William "Foote" Futterman merged his existing business to form Kent Supply. This fulfilled his dream to provide a partnership with his plumbing associates to take on the premium project of his time and compete against the national suppliers.