Many people were surprised to see the self-cleaning public toilet. An individual wrote ... Like, a light misting cleanser and then flush the whole room." A second said, "We need these everywhere.

In 1775, Cumming patented the S-bend. This became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet - and, with it, public sanitation as we know it. Flushing toilets had previously foundered on ...

Water bill 'too expensive' to flush toilet Public toilets 'absolute ... sludge- and bacteria-repellent coating that can essentially make a toilet self-cleaning," Tak-Sing Wong, associate professor ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States have confirmed what the germphobic among us have long suspected: The flush of a commercial toilet releases a Vesuvius-like ...