# And y'all thought the British invented the flush toilet. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-yall-thought-the-british-invented-the-flush-toilet/27126 "2000-07-27T23:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-yall-thought-the-british-invented-the-flush-toilet/27126/1 "2000-07-27T23:46:28Z")
Think again! [http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000726/od/crapper\_dc\_1.html](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000726/od/crapper_dc_1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-yall-thought-the-british-invented-the-flush-toilet/27126/2 "2000-07-28T02:22:43Z")
Um, got a news flash for the Chinese: the Minoans invented it, the Romans perfected it, the Chinese only go home with the bronze. But hey, thank you for playing! Welcome to the Free World! [http://www.webcab.co.uk/ace/History/eng.html](http://www.webcab.co.uk/ace/History/eng.html) ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-yall-thought-the-british-invented-the-flush-toilet/27126/3 "2000-07-28T02:36:21Z")
Hmm I always thought the romans invented it first and the british reinvented it brfore the roman ones were discovered by archiologists.