Alexander Cummings
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Alexander Cummings (1733–1814) was a Scottish watchmaker who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet. His premises were in Bond Street, London.[1]
Born in Edinburgh in 1733, Cummings was a mathematician and mechanic as well as a watchmaker. He wrote books about watch and clock work, about the effect on roads of carriage wheels with rims of various shapes, and on the influence of gravity. He became a magistrate and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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- ^ The Development of the Flushing Toilet - Detailed Chronology 1596 onwards, Twyfords Bathrooms, Stoke-on-Trent, UK (PDF)
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