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  1. water closet, (WC). Flushing lavatory that
  2. works by siphon action. The first widely used
  3. WC was produced in the 1770s by Alexander
  4. Cummings in London. The present type dates
  5. from Davis Bostel's invention of 1889, which
  6. featured a ballcock valve system to refill
  7. the flushing cistern.
  8.