The chamber pot, from humble beginnings, offered scope for improvement. In Victorian times it became a veritable object d'art and even in the 1900s appealed to inventors as a vessel that might be elaborated. In 1929, for instance, an American electrician, Elbert Stallworth, patented the first electric chamber pot for use on chilly nights. In a rubber and asbestos seat which ran round the upper edge were embedded metal bands enclosing resistance wires between the mica strips. Chamber pots for ladies; period 1794 - 1800 AD Britain in ancient time created fantasies in stoneware toilets and bath. Ornately carved and painted urinals and commodes attract attention and are a source of amusement to many. The pictures of medieval commodes immediately are noteworthy. The picture of medieval mobile commodes in the shape of a treasure chest, which the English used while camping out for a hunt, is fascinating. Early decorated stoneware bath - Britain

Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, Union Minister of India, inaugurating the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets The Museum has a rare collection of facts, pictures and objects detailing the historic evolution of toilets from 2,500 BC to date. It gives a chronology of developments relating to technology, toilet related social customs, toilet etiquettes, the sanitary conditions and legislative efforts of the times. It has an extensive display of privies, chamber pots, toilet furniture, bidets and water closets in use from 1145 AD to the modern times. It also has a rare collection of beautiful poems.