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The story of toilets, telephones & other useful inventions

Daynes, Katie2004
Books, Manuscripts
This text provides an amusing and informative history of the toilet, from cavemen's holes in the ground to Thomas Crapper's flushing toilet, via Roman public loos, stinky castle moats and Edwardian drains. It also contains equally interesting tales of telephones, frozen food, soccer nets, safety razors and space inventions.
Main title:
The story of toilets, telephones & other useful inventions / Katie Daynes ; illustrated by Adam Larkum ; reading consultant, Alison Kelly.
Imprint:
London : Usborne, 2004.
Collation:
48 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
07460622149780746062210
Dewey class:
609J609J608608 Find it out608
Local class:
609J609
Language:
English
BRN:
375247
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