(In case youâre not familiar with it, Weight Watchers followers have a set number of points they can use for the day, and zero-point foods are a BFD.) The zero-points list used to just be fruits and vegetables, so this is a huge change.
While Thomas Crapper is commonly given credit for inventing the first flushing toilet in the late 1800s, the first version can actually be traced back to 1596. At this time, a British nobleman, Sir John Harrington, first engineered and invented a valve that could release water from the water closet (WC) when pulled.
The History of the Pressure Cooker. The invention of the pressure cooker is credited to Denis Papin, a French physicist. Perhaps this partially explains why nearly every household in France has a pressure cooker. Papin demonstrated his steam digestor in May of 1679 in London, England to the Royal Society by cooking bones with it.