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How Toilets Work
by Marshall Brain

The toilet. The commode. The john. The porcelain throne. No matter what you call it, it is inevitable that we come to this device because every home has at least one. But more importantly, we come to it because the toilet is a technological marvel - a really cool water-handling system!

But. But it has all these bad connotations in our minds. There's the things we do with a toilet, the germs we associate with it, the images we have from public restrooms, the fact that we have to clean it... All of these things make the toilet somehow tainted. In this edition of How Stuff Works I'd ask that you try to get past the mental block you have around toilets and simply look at them for what they are - neat solutions to a problem. Because toilets really are amazing things!

Go to the next article about how toilets work or pick from the table of contents:

Introduction to How Toilets Work You are here

Parts of a Toilet

The Bowl Siphon

The Flush Mechanism

The Refill Mechanism

Putting It All Together

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