Volume 49 - No. 24
By Friedrich Gomez
In tribute to his father, Halsey W. Taylor changed the world and made it a safer place to live. It was Taylor’s undying love for his dad which motivated him to keep others from suffering the same fate. You see, in 1896, Halsey Taylor’s father died of typhoid fever after drinking water that was contaminated. So, to honor his father’s memory, Taylor dedicated his life to creating a revolutionary drinking fountain in 1912, called the Puritan Sanitary Fountain. The Paper - 760.747.7119
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Several years after his father’s death, Taylor realized that numerous workers were becoming sick with dysentery, where he was a plant superintendent for the Packard Motor Car Company. Sixteen years after losing his father, Taylor finally succeeded in developing a drinking fountain that was sanitary and would not contribute to the spreading of various diseases. During the First World War, Taylor continued improving his invention with the “Double Bubbler” drinking fountain. The fountain created
2 streams of water in an arc formation. Previously, drinkers placed their mouths directly on, or near, the faucet – all of which spread various germs. With Taylor’s drinking faucet, the arc of water allowed drinkers to be several inches away from the faucet, reducing the spread of communicable diseases. Reverting to cold drinking water, instead of room temperature, also diminished the spreading of germs at public fountains. By the 1920s and 1930s, the Double-Bubbler drinking fountain
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accounted for over 80% of all drinking fountains in the entire United States. Even though Father’s Day only comes once a year, Halsey Willard Taylor of Warren, Ohio, honored his father every day of the calendar. When his father died – unnecessarily, from contaminated water – Halsey made a decision to continue honoring his daddy by dedicating his entire life in providing safe water fountains throughout the land. He wanted sanitary fountains which would allow a simple, safe