All the modern conveniences : American household plumbing, 1840-1890

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    • Ogle, Maureen

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All the modern conveniences : American household plumbing, 1840-1890

Maureen Ogle

(John Hopkins studies in the history of technology, new ser., no. 20)

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-182) and index

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Until 1840, indoor plumbing could be found only in mansions and first-class hotels. Then, in the decade before mid-century, Americans representing a wider range of economic circumstances began to install household plumbing with increasing eagerness. Ogle draws on a wide assortment of contemporary sources - sanitation reports, builders' manuals, fixture catalogues, patent applications and popular scientific tracts - to show how the demand for plumbing was more by an emerging middle-class culture of convenience, reform and domestic life than by fears abour poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation. She also examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.

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