Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| 20100246341 | MOVEMENT FOR TIMEPIECE WITH RETROGRADE DISPLAY A movement for a timepiece having a retrograde display member displaying at least one time division, includes a going train, elements for driving the display member including a wheel unit driven by the going train and carrying a first cam sharing the same axis of rotati... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20080253235 | Timepiece Display Apparatus, Movement, and Timepiece A timepiece display apparatus causes a day hand to move reciprocally by means of center wheel, driven day wheel, cam, lever, and rack. These wheels, cam, lever, and rack can be easily arranged to fit the available space on the main plate of the movement, and the constru... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080205200 | Transmission switching mechanism A gear shifting mechanism intended to be integrated into an horological movement includes a gear pinion rotated by a first wheel of the movement, an element holding a first fly-back heart freely mounted on the gear pinion, and rotated by the first wheel or by a second w... | 08/28/2008 |
