BU Plumbing

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Plumbing is an science of creating and maintaining sanitary conditions in buildings used by human .it is alsodefined as the art the science of installing ,repairing and servicing the pipis,fixtures and appurtances necessary for bringing water supply and romoving liquid and water bome wastes:it includes fixtures ad fixture traps;the soil pipe and waste pipes:vent pipes;the building drain and building sewer :and storm drainage pipis;with their devices ,appurtenances and connections to all within or adjacent to the building (alli,2004)

BIBB: aka bibcock or hose bibb - typically a faucet with nozzle bent downward. Also called: outside/outdoor faucet/spigot or garden faucet.

DATE 2500 BC 2000 BC 1770-1440 BC 1055 BC 800 BC

EVENTS Egyptian pyramid contains toilet consisting of basin with lead stopper attached to brass ring Water closets used in India ,flushed with pots of water info underground drains.bathing facilities in mohenjo-daro India. Bathing facilities in royal place of Knossos in crete Greece. According to old testament law,istraelities bury waste under eath or sand ,like many primitive societies According to legend ,king minos of crete has flush toilet with wooden seat to first to be quit by the romans,aqua appia was an underground aqueduct about 16 km (10 ml)long.it was built during the administration of appiaus cladius caecus,for whom the apian way is named ,around 310 bc .the acua marcian in rome,about 90 km(56 ml)long and built by the praetor marcius in 144 b.c.was the first roman above aquaduct to carry water above grounground..the bridged section of this aquaduct 16 km (10 mi). long.ancient rome was supplied by more than ten aquaducts ,providing the city with some 143,845cu m (38 million gallons )of water each day .

144&310 bc

206 BC -24 AD 2nd century BC

Han dynasty king ues toilet with running water stone seat and arm rest .china also claims invention of toilet paper. The earliest known Roman baths are the Stabian baths at Pompeii. Around a central courtyard , used for exercise , were the apodyterium , or dressing room;the calidarium or hot room containing the alveus or hot bath and the laconicum or steam bath the tepidarium or warm bath ; and the frigidarium or cold bath. Floors were of mosaic tile and floors and walls were heated by a hypocaust that circulated hot air through flues. Water was brought great distances by aqueducts. Five imperial thermae were built in rome. Extensive ruins of three of these remain, the baths of titus, caracalla, and Diocletian. In addition to the facilities found in Pompeii, these had shops, lecture halls, elaborate gymnasiums, gardens and libraries. Roman sanitation system includes (a) good drains (b) toilet with hinge seats , running water taking waste through kitchens. In medieval Europe (a) chamber pots are used , emptied into open drains outside houses (b) castles have smaller chamber jutted from the outer wall , waste falls into the moat. Sir john Harrington invents a flushing toilet for Queen Elizabeth I, ridicule leaves the invention in obscurity . Fall of medieval bath due to syphilis First plumbing law London . Revive due to epidemic brougth about by unsanitary pratices. In walled city of Intramuros, Spanish friar engineers used the European standards in their plumbing design standards. In England (a) flush toilet was re-invented by Alexander cumming (b) improved by joseph bramah manufactured by thomas crapper France used plumbing in water service facilities Filipino plumber where trained and assigned in maintaining and remodeling of plumbing system in pueblos

1st century AD-4th century AD 753 BC-410 AD 1066-1485 1596 16th century 17th century

1775-1778 18th century
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BIDET used for washing genitals and posterior areas of the body. FIXTURE broad term in plumbing/kitchen/bath that could be an entire toilet, sink, tub, etc OR it could be the devices that provide a supply of water. LAVATORY ("LAV") is a fixed bowl or basin with running water and drainage for washing. Many use the word "Lavatory" as meaning a bathroom.

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