Who is Thomas Crapper?
A toymaker Incorrect !!! Try Again! Answer: A Toilet maker. Thomas Crapper is often associated with the invention of a modern flush toilet. He himself did not involve in design or invention of modern toilet, but he made the first showroom of a modern “indoor” bathroom concept. This move made a shock to the public, who considered toilet indoor totally unhygienic[5].
There is nothing worse for a researcher than misinformation and innuendo posing as fact, and such is the case with the 19th century English scholar and plumber known as Thomas Crapper. There are those who even insist there never was a real person named Thomas Crapper, only the active imagination of a mock biographer who published a book on Crapper’s life called Flushed with Success. I wish I were making that up, I really do. In fact, there really was a master plumber and bathroom fixtures manufacturer named Thomas Crapper, who was born in 1836 and died in 1910 in his native England. As a young child, Crapper worked as an apprentice to a master plumber. After several years of training as a journeyman, Crapper himself became a master plumber by the age of 20. Crapper did plumbing work for a number of prominent English citizens, including members of the royal family. Eventually Thomas Crapper formed his own plumbing and bathroom fixtures company, which became one of the first to feature a
Well he was a master plumber that invented improvements for the flushing toilet. There is much debate about Thomas Crapper, some say he invented the flushing toilet, or that the word “crap” came from his name, and some people say that he never existed. Whatever the case may be today is a day to celebrate the great porcelain throne, and what better way to do so than to spend some time in the bathroom. What everyone needs is some good reading material while they are sitting on their throne, and this book Passing Time in the Loo from X-treme Geek will help you enjoy your time spent in the loo.
