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Thomas Crapper

(baptised 28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910)

was an English plumber and businessman. He founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London, a plumbing equipment company. His notability with regard to toilets has often been overstated, mostly due to the publication in 1969 of a fictional biography by New Zealand satirist Wallace Reyburn.

Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock. He improved the S-bend plumbing trap in 1880 by inventing the U-bend. The firm's lavatorial equipment was manufactured at premises in nearby Marlborough Road (now Draycott Avenue). The company owned the world's first bath, toilet and sink showroom in King's Road. Crapper was noted for the quality of his products and received several royal warrants.

Manhole covers with Crapper's company's name on them in Westminster Abbey have become one of London's minor tourist attractions.

Thank you Mr. Crapper, you the man!!!

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Rest in peace, Thomas Crapper.  A plumber and industrialist, Thomas Crapper was granted a number of Royal Warrants for work on the royal family’s water closets, helped raise awareness of the need for sanitary plumbing, and patented some of the advances in toilet innovation that helped lead to today’s flush commodes (though he did not, as implied by some of his advertisements, invent the flush toilet).  [His name did not inspire the English word “crap,” either--“crap” is as old a word as time allows, deriving either from the Dutch krappen or the Old French crappe.  According to our Oxford English Dictionary, the first instance of crap being used in its modernish sense was in 1846 (in reference to a “crapping ken”), long before young Thomas had anything more than the usual interest a 10-year-old boy would have had in privies.]  Crapper died on on this date in 1910 at the age of 73.

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Thomas Crapper was wrongly credited with which invention?

Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) was wrongly credited with the invention of the flush toilet. The flush toilet, also known as the water closet, was actually invented by Sir John Harington, an English courtier and writer, in 1596. Harington designed and built a flushing device that used water to remove waste from the toilet bowl.

The misconception that Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet can be attributed to a few factors. Firstly, Thomas Crapper was a prominent plumber and sanitary engineer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He owned a successful plumbing company in London and was known for his innovations in plumbing and sanitation systems. Crapper's company manufactured and installed many toilets and plumbing fixtures, which led to his association with the invention.

Secondly, during the Victorian era, there was a significant improvement in sanitation and public health, and the flush toilet became more widely adopted. As Crapper's company was involved in the installation of these toilets, his name became synonymous with the invention.

Soldiers during World War I saw the name "Crapper" on the cisterns of toilets used in the British army. This led to the popularisation of the term "crapper" as a slang word for a toilet.

It is important to note that while Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, he did make significant contributions to the development of modern plumbing systems.

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