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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4810225 | Sound producing toy A wheeled toy duck is attached to a stick which allows it to be pushed along a ground surface. Flexible flap members are attached to the wheels and alternately "slap" the floor to produce sound while the toy is being pushed by a child.... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4245425 | Toy horse with mechanism to produce trotting sound A toy horse supported on wheels which reciprocate and oscillate the four legs and bob the pivoted head as the horse is pulled along a surface, the horse also having a hollow body containing a noise-making unit which imitates the clip-clop noise of a trott... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4019276 | Automobile toy An automobile toy adapted to be moved by pulling a tow string by an infant in which when the automobile toy is moved along a support floor or ground by pulling the tow string, the body of the automobile toy moves upwardly and downwardly and at the same ti... | 04/26/1977 |
