Did you know during our lives, we spend an estimated 1.5 years in the toilet, a simple chair but rarely receives its due. Sales of toilet John Lennon recently for $ 14,740 and toilet eBay auctions by JD Salinger has made the Time.com website to look back other famous toilets.
1. Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
Safe to say that this is the toilet of the most important in the history of art. Derived from the touch of his hands with a terkonsep art - where the concept behind the work take precedence over the thing itself was born. 1917 Marcel Duchamp urinal is one piece he called "readymades" - the art has been produced from existing objects. The end product has been equated with veiled head of Renaissance Madonna classic and a seated Buddha. Who says toilets can not be beautiful?
2. Elvis's Toilet
This famous star died in a way that is inappropriate as a star. On the morning of August 16, 1977, and then, Elvis Presley's fiancee, Ginger Alden, Elvis reported that he found beside the toilet - unresponsive, lying face down with vomiting and pants strewn on his ankle. According to Elvis biographer, Peter Guralnick, "It's certainly possible that he was in a place with no back support when a seizure." Although it is not appealing his death, Elvis is not alone, the British Prince George II, his life ended in a toilet in 1760 during aortic surgery .
3. The Trainspotting Toilet
Is there a toilet best scenes in the history of this film? In Danny Boyle's 1996 film, Ewan McGregor walked into a bar to use the "worst toilet in Scotland" Empire. (At least a sign on the door). This was followed by a nuance that is so disgusting. This scene is one of the Top 10 movie scenes of all time bathroom, according to a poll conducted by British film magazine,
4. Larry Craig's Public Toilet
Toilet resulted in the resignation of controversial Senator Larry Craig, on June 11, 2007, held in Minneapolis - St. Airport. Paul on suspicion of lewd conduct in men's toilets. Craig is known as a supporter of legislation of anti-gay, accused of asking an undercover police officer for sex. He insisted that not guilty, denied the testimony of the police and stated that he was just "being big" and took a paper from the floor (?). Interesting fact is, the toilet stalls are now a popular tourist destination.
5. Thomas crapper's Toilet
Ah, Thomas crapper. He is the inventor of the flush toilet named objects, right? Wrong! Crapper toilet toilet is one of the most famous in the world, but not completely so. While Thomas crapper not find a toilet flushing, he did much to increase its popularity and developed several important discoveries, such as the ball cock (a kind of automatic valve). The word crap (crap) is not even from its name, it actually comes from the Middle Classic, and first appeared in the Oxford Dictionary Classic in 1846 under the reference of knowledge is useless (crapping), or a latrine / public kaskus. When Thomas crapper launched his company in 1861, there was no direct connection between the name and the words of day-to-day.
6. NASA's Space Toilet
The most expensive toilet in the world out of this world. Literally, the toilet was out of this world. A system designed by the Russians purchased by NASA for the International Space Station with a cool price of $ 19 Million. And what did NASA get the money for it? Certainly not a hot seat. Toilets are designed to work in zero gravity, do not hinder the movement of leg and thigh bars. The toilets were also able to dry the dirt to eliminate bacteria and odor. And here's the best part: You can filter the urine into drinking water. Best toilet ever!
7. The Solid-Gold Toilet
Built in 2001, this is rather a luxury toilet made of solid 24-carat gold and covered with jewels. Everything is in a small room around it - the sink, tiles and doors - are also made of pure gold; sightings in the showroom Hang Fung Gold Technology in Hong Kong has a price worth more than $ 29 million. The bathroom was the brainchild Jeweler Lam Sai-Wing, which was inspired by the vision of the communist leader Lenin that the most appropriate thing to do with gold that is going to build public toilets of gold. This toilet offers a full state of the art with an automatic flushing system but is restricted to tourists. Visitors must wear plastic shoes to avoid lecetan stalks 900 grams of gold embedded in the floor. Apparently, the showroom has been doing his job - some of the guests are interested in making their bathrooms with gold accessories after the visit.
8. The Toto
Toilet choices for the artists (and up to 72% of Japanese households), Toto is one of the highest-tech toilet. Features of hands-free devices including hot seat, deodorization "marriage savior"). Toto is one of the three largest pipe producer in the world. The year 2006 net sales were $ 4.2 billion, and the company has 20,000 employees, controls two-thirds of the bathroom the Japanese market and maintain a presence in 16 countries. And Jet water cleaning. Even put the seat lid down for you (a function known as
9. The First Flushing Toilet
Sir John Harrington is a poet, though not so famous. He is remembered for something less romantic: Finding the first flush toilet. Harrington is a godson of Queen Elizabeth I who had built their own home, designing and installing his invention called Ajax. When the Queen tried it, he was very impressed and ordered one for herself. Her water closet has a pot with open bottom, sealed with the valve face skin. The system works with a combination of levers and weights who pours water from a cistern and open the valve. Although Queen seemed enthusiastic for this new invention, people still rely on a toilet cubicle, and not until nearly 200 years later, the rinse water closet was first patented by Alexander Cummings in London in 1775.
10. Hitler's Toilet
For the most part looks normal, not unclean and unreliable. But the bathroom Greg Auto Repair in Florence, New Jersey, is actually much more than that. Before they have Kohfeldt Greg, owner of Auto Repair shop, toilets and bathroom sink is one of Adolf Hitler's belongings. True - the facility in the room was once used by der Führer in his private yacht, which was shot in a junkyard in New Jersey in the early 1950s. Cruise ship was torn apart, so that various pieces of goods on a cruise ship is scattered in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Toilets are displayed in a shop in 1952 and has been there ever since. The store owner did not add anything on the old toilet and sink. He said he would part with the old stuff it in a heartbeat if someone were to buy a new bathroom to replace mereka.Tertarik make an offer?
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