For the English brewer, see Francis Showering. A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a shower onions meaning of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor.

Most showers have temperature, spray pressure and adjustable showerhead nozzle. The original showers were neither indoor structures nor man-made but were common natural formations: waterfalls. The falling water rinsed the bathers completely clean and was more efficient than bathing in a traditional basin, which required manual transport of both fresh and waste water. The first mechanical shower, operated by a hand pump, was patented in England in 1767 by William Feetham, a stove maker from Ludgate Hill in London.

His shower contraption used a pump to force the water into a vessel above the user’s head and a chain would then be pulled to release the water from the vessel. Domestic showers are most commonly stall showers or showers combined with a bathtub. A stall shower is a dedicated shower area which uses a door or curtain to contain water spray. Many modern athletic and aquatic facilities provide showers for use by patrons, commonly in gender segregated changing rooms.

These can be in the form of individual stalls shielded by curtains or a door or communal shower rooms. A wet room often refers to a bathroom without internal dedicated or raised areas which has an open shower. Structurally, a wet room requires the bathroom to have a gradient or slope towards a drain hole, and a foul air trap connecting the floor to the waste pipes. Depending on region, the term wet room can also encompass other rooms such as laundry rooms. Air shower, a type of bathing where high pressure air is used to blow off excess dust particles from cleanroom personnel.