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The shower has influenced my life the most this week because in class we had talked about how families would take one bath a year in Europe a long time ago and I started to think about how terrible that would be. The bath water would probably be cold and would defiantly be dirty by the time the last person got to bathe, I would not feel clean. Normally people take showers every day or every other day I assume, not once a year. Life back in the day must have been very smelly and disease was probably more of an issue then than now since we now use soap and water on a daily basis. Showers are really convenient because you can just jump in and get clean and jump out. The water comes through the shower head or faucet hot or cold depending on your choice and that is certainly a luxury because who would want to take a cold shower every morning or a cold bath. …show more content…

William Feetham was a stove grate maker and furnishing iron monger. The shower he invented is the one that is the most closely related to the modern shower. Although his shower did not have hot water it had the same mechanics. The shower Feetham developed had an adjustable stop, which helped open the water way to the required setting for the water to rush out, and feetham also developed the strainer which limited the quantities of water that was let out from the shower head above the shower. In the 1870’s people began having hot water pumped in the shower. I’m thankful that William Feetham invented the shower because without his beginning patent then we could all still be bathing in a tub every day which can be time consuming especially if you’re in a rush. Although his beginning shower did not have hot water it was certainly an improvement from a cold bath once a year in dirty bath water I’m

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