In a different life earlier in my career, I worked for a German company and visited the corporate offices in Hamburg.
They had toilet bowls with a little diagnostic shelf molded in so you could examine your deposit before flushing. I was told it was due to the influence of some doctor before WWII. Since they worked fine, it was too expensive to rip them all out and put newer shelfless ones in just to eliminate the weirdness.
It's possible. I only know the story I was told and there's unfortunately no one left to ask.
The company went under decades ago. Last I checked, the factories were levelled and the only reference to the company I could find was about them using slave labor under the Nazis.
They were in business over a century and a half and were an integral part of shipbuilding in Hamburg and around the world, expanding out to mining and heavy machinery before I left. Now they're all but forgotten. As far as the Internet is concerned, they never existed.
In a different life earlier in my career, I worked for a German company and visited the corporate offices in Hamburg.
They had toilet bowls with a little diagnostic shelf molded in so you could examine your deposit before flushing. I was told it was due to the influence of some doctor before WWII. Since they worked fine, it was too expensive to rip them all out and put newer shelfless ones in just to eliminate the weirdness.
I thought the poop shelf was to eliminate splashing.
It's possible. I only know the story I was told and there's unfortunately no one left to ask.
The company went under decades ago. Last I checked, the factories were levelled and the only reference to the company I could find was about them using slave labor under the Nazis.
They were in business over a century and a half and were an integral part of shipbuilding in Hamburg and around the world, expanding out to mining and heavy machinery before I left. Now they're all but forgotten. As far as the Internet is concerned, they never existed.