It’s difficult for most people to consider in today’s advanced society, but for the most of history humans have not had the plumbing luxuries that allow us to heat, drink, bathe, cook and wash using clean potable water in the comfort of our own homes. Although advances such as aqueducts allowed the ancient Romans to move water to and from bath houses and city streets, truly modern plumbing and gas advances didn’t come until around the turn of the 19th century