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  2. Flush toilet - Wikipedia

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    A flush toilet (also known as a flushing toilet, water closet (WC); see also toilet names) is a toilet that disposes of human waste (i.e., urine and feces) by collecting it in a bowl and then using the force of water to channel it ("flush" it) through a drainpipe to another location for treatment, either nearby or at a communal facility.

  3. Toilet - Wikipedia

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    A dry toilet (or non-flush toilet, no flush toilet or toilet without a flush) is a toilet which, unlike a flush toilet, does not use flush water. [20] Dry toilets do not use water to move excreta along or block odors. [21] They do not produce sewage, and are not connected to a sewer system or septic tank. Instead, excreta falls through a drop ...

  4. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    In an attempt to create more realistic images, photographers and artists would hand-colour monochrome photographs. The first hand-coloured daguerreotypes are attributed to Swiss painter and printmaker Johann Baptist Isenring , who used a mixture of gum arabic and pigments to colour daguerreotypes soon after their invention in 1839. [ 2 ]

  5. Blackwater (waste) - Wikipedia

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    Blackwater can contain feces, urine, water and toilet paper from flush toilets. Blackwater is distinguished from greywater, which comes from sinks, baths, washing machines, and other household appliances apart from toilets. Greywater results from washing food, clothing, dishes, as well as from showering or bathing. [1]

  6. List of early color feature films - Wikipedia

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    Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...

  7. File:Human feces in toilet.jpg - Wikipedia

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  8. Alexander Cumming - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Cumming FRSE (sometimes referred to as Alexander Cummings; 1733 – 8 March 1814) [1] was a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet in 1775, which had been pioneered by Sir John Harington, but without solving the problem of foul smells.

  9. Tabo (hygiene) - Wikipedia

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    The timba (pail) and the tabo (dipper) are two essentials in Philippine bathrooms and bathing areas.. The tabò (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈtaːbɔʔ]) is the traditional hygiene tool primarily for cleansing, bathing, and cleaning the floor of the bathroom in the Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Brunei.