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The complete History of Plumbing. Incredibly detailed, fairly interesting, and chock full of information from days of yore - all the way back.

A Guide to the Development of On-site Sanitation The book has three parts. Part I deals with the background to sanitation - health, sociological, financial and institutional issues, and the technologies available for excreta disposal. Part II provides in-depth technical information about the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the major types of on-site sanitation facility, while Part III describes the planning and development processes involved in projects and programs. Annexes on reuse of excreta and sullage disposal are also included; although connected with on-site sanitation, these are primarily off-site activities.

A History Of Plumbing Engineering By Jim Olsztynski. A 1,500-year gap exists between the advances of the ancient world and our modern era of sanitation. Think how good you have it with CAD programs, pumps and other electronic gizmos to design, control and monitor the flow of water. Imagine that these tools were not available to you. How would you like to try designing workable plumbing systems using only primitive materials and natural energy sources like sun, wind, currents and gravity? (The thought occurs that this might not be a bad exercise for an engineering class.)

History of Public Toilets

in Babylon - in Egypt - in Crete - in Greece - in Jerusalem - in Pompeii and Herculaneum - from Roman to old English Times - terrible plagues and epidemics Sir Thomas Crapper Myths and Realities - the water closet - in America - the White House plumbing to Chinese toilet discovery information "When you consider the contributions that plumbing and sanitation makes to the quality of our lives, then much of the other things that we do just seems so much less significant." - 1995 our founder to our poop page - to 1912 Dutch toilet
 

Another Source:

Ancient Plumbing c Plumbing & Mechanical 1989. Four years ago we began our "History of Plumbing" series with an overview of ancient Roman plumbing. This covered the days of the Old Romans from about 1000 B.C. to A.D. 476, when the skills of the of the plumber broadened in scope. It coincided with the discovery of ample deposits of lead and its many uses. In particular, lead was very malleable and thus easy to fabricate into pipe for supply and sewer systems, personal bath rooms and bath palaces.

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