National Shower with a Friend Day Timeline

2001

Smart shower

Britain's Aqualisa invented digital showers. The Quartz™ remains the best known and highest selling digital shower in the UK.

1992

How low can you flow?

New federal rules set minimum efficiency standards for showers; they were not to exceed a flow rate of more than 2.5 gallons per minute.

1850

Getting modern

Newly invented: Free-standing showers that connected to running water sources. Finally!

1767

The first shower patent

William Feetham's invention used a pump to force the water into a vessel above the user's head. You would then pull a chain to release the water.