Newfangled Enterprise Bulletins

In 1906, Luther Haws and Halsey Willard Taylor developed the original drinking drinking fountain, with the fundamental motivation being to supply safer drinking water and avoid the threat of typhoid fever as a result of polluted water. Mr Haws' father had passed away as a result of of typhoid fever brought on by polluted H2O.

Early drinking dispensers provided ambient temperature drinking water, but popular interest resulted in the production of water coolers which could easily dispense cooler drinking water, thereby wiping out the germs responsible for toxins and illness. But initial water... Read more