The place of articulation of a consonant is generally named for the passive articulator. Sometimes the active articulator is also explicitly included in the name of a place of articulation by use of the prefixes apico- and lamino-. Illustrations of Place of Articulation in English.
It was around this period that the first electric washing machine was invented. There are records that show that Louis Goldenberg invented the electric washing machine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The patent may have been under Goldenberg or Ford Motor Company.
Although Harington installed a working model for Queen Elizabeth at Richmond Palace, it took several centuriesâand the Industrial Revolutionâs improvements in manufacturing and waste disposal â for the flush toilet to catch on. In 1775 English inventor Alexander Cumming was granted the first patent for a flush toilet. His greatest innovation was the S-shaped pipe below the bowl that used water to create a seal preventing sewer gas from entering through the toilet. In the late-19th century, a London plumbing impresario named Thomas Crapper manufactured one of the first widely successful lines of flush toilets. Crapper did not invent the toilet, but he did develop the ballcock, an improved tank-filling mechanism still used in toilets today.