Talk:Elizabeth I's Toilet/@comment-4273152-20160627204121/@comment-1674153-20160627213606

I, for one, find myself enjoying this artifact the longer I think about it.

In order to actually "flush" this toilet, you needed to manually remove the brass gate that blocked the contents of the bowl from the tunnel below, then release the water in the cesterne above to clean the bowl. Harrington was so adamant that his design was able to keep the air clean, but of course the S pipe wasn't invented until years later, so the latrine had to be filled with flowers in order to keep the Queen from gagging. And then the vault where all the refuse was kept had to be emptied every morning and night on top of that.

All in all, this is so appeasing to me.