enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Aircraft lavatory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lavatory

    A business class lavatory with a window, on board an Air Canada Boeing 777-200LR (2011) An aircraft lavatory or plane toilet is a small unisex room on an aircraft with a toilet and sink. They are commonplace on passenger flights except some short-haul flights. Aircraft toilets were historically chemical toilets, but many now use a vacuum flush ...

  3. Toilets in Japan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan

    A cleansing jet of water designed to cleanse the anus of the user of this bidet -style toilet. High-tech washlets with control panel. Toilets in Japan are sometimes designed more elaborately than toilets commonly seen in other developed nations. European toilets occasionally have a separate bidet whilst Japan combines an electronic bidet with ...

  4. Jack Sim - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sim

    Jack Sim. Jack Sim Juek Wah (Chinese: 沈 锐 华; pinyin: Shěn Ruìhuá, born 1957), also known as Mr Toilet, is a Singaporean entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the founder of the World Toilet Organization and World Toilet Day initiative. He is also the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore. Sim started a number of successful ...

  5. Restroom Association - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restroom_Association

    Advocating clean toilets. Restroom Association (Singapore) (RAS) is a non-profit, non-government organisation which was founded in 1998 by Jack Sim. [1] The current president of the organisation is Mr Ho Chee Kit. At RAS, they have four main pillars, namely, the Community, Outreach and Education, Research Development and Training, and Standards.

  6. Tap (valve) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_(valve)

    Faucet is the most common term in the US, similar in use to "tap" in British English, e.g. "water faucet" (although the term "tap" is also used in the US).; Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture.

  7. Air gap (plumbing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(plumbing)

    A common use of the term "air gap" in domestic plumbing refers to a specialized fixture that provides backflow prevention for an installed dishwasher. This "air gap" is visible above the sink as a small cylindrical fixture mounted near the faucet. In the base cabinet under the sink, the drain hose from the dishwasher feeds the "top" of the air ...

  8. Delta Faucet Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Faucet_Company

    Delta Faucet Company is a division owned by Masco, which was founded in Detroit in 1929 by Armenian immigrant Alex Manoogian. In 1952, an eager inventor brought Manoogian his latest invention, a one-handled faucet that mixed both hot and cold water with a ball-valve. Unfortunately it leaked, but Manoogian was intrigued by the idea of utilizing ...

  9. Mr. Toilet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Toilet

    Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man is a 2019 documentary film about Singaporean activist Jack Sim, who uses humour to publicize the issue of improving bathroom sanitation. [ 1 ] It had its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on 27 April 2019, [ 2 ] where it was named the winner of the Scotiabank Docs For ...