Indoor Plumbing or Internet

PLUMBING VS TECHNOLOGY Which would you choose? Are we going to innovate our way out of stagnation? The TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) kicks off a rollicking debate. Speakers had numerous topics including a History lesson of productivity, technological progress, standards of living, GDP and economy, and even robots. It ended with a show of…

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Plumbing History

INDOOR PLUMBING, WHEN DID IT START? Do you take indoor plumbing and your plumber for granted? The first “water closet” was in India, 2000 BCE. A pot of water would wash waste through pipes, into drains running under the streets. In 691 BCE, the Greeks had the first aqueduct. Rome had 144 public toilets by…

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