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On January 27, 1910, Thomas Crapper, English plumber and inventor, died at the age of 73. From the article:
"Thomas Crapper (baptised 28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910) was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London. He 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 are now one of London's minor tourist attractions. Thomas Crapper & Co owned the world's first bath, toilet and sink showroom, in King's Road until 1966. The firm's lavatorial equipment was manufactured at premises in nearby Marlborough Road (now Draycott Avenue).
Company
Crapper was born in Thorne, Yorkshire, in 1836; the exact date is unknown, but he was baptised on 28 September 1836. His father, Charles, was a sailor. In 1853 he was apprenticed to his brother George, who was a master plumber in Chelsea. After his apprenticeship and three years as a journeyman plumber, in 1861 Crapper set himself up as a sanitary engineer, with his own brass foundry and workshops in nearby Marlborough Road.
The flushing toilet was invented by John Harington in 1596. Joseph Bramah of Yorkshire patented the first practical water closet in England in 1778. George Jennings in 1852 also took out a patent for the flush-out toilet. In a time when bathroom fixtures were barely spoken of, Crapper heavily promoted sanitary plumbing and pioneered the concept of the bathroom fittings showroom.
In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as Prince of Wales and as king.
In 1904, Crapper retired, passing the firm to his nephew George and his business partner Robert Marr Wharam. Crapper lived at 12 Thornsett Road, Anerley, for the last six years of his life and died on 27 January 1910. He was buried in the nearby Elmers End Cemetery.
In 1966 the company was sold by then owner Robert G. Wharam (son of Robert Marr Wharam) on his retirement, to their rivals John Bolding & Sons. Bolding went into liquidation in 1969. The company fell out of use until it was acquired by Simon Kirby, a historian and collector of antique bathroom fittings, who relaunched the company in Stratford-upon-Avon, producing authentic reproductions of Crapper's original Victorian bathroom fittings.
Siphonic flush toilet
Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock, but none was for the flush toilet itself. Thomas Crapper's advertisements implied the siphonic flush was his invention; one having the text "Crapper's Valveless Water Waste Preventer (Patent #4,990) One movable part only", but patent 4990 (for a minor improvement to the water waste preventer) was not his, but that of Albert Giblin in 1898. Crapper's nephew, George, did improve the siphon mechanism by which the water flow is started. A patent for this development was awarded in 1897.
Origin of the word "crap"
It has often been claimed in popular culture that the slang term for human bodily waste, crap, originated with Thomas Crapper because of his association with lavatories. A common version of this story is that American servicemen stationed in England during World War I saw his name on cisterns and used it as army slang, i.e. "I'm going to the crapper".
The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff). In English, it was used to refer to chaff, and also to weeds or other rubbish. Its first application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846 under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house."
"Thomas Crapper (baptised 28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910) was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London. He 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 are now one of London's minor tourist attractions. Thomas Crapper & Co owned the world's first bath, toilet and sink showroom, in King's Road until 1966. The firm's lavatorial equipment was manufactured at premises in nearby Marlborough Road (now Draycott Avenue).
Company
Crapper was born in Thorne, Yorkshire, in 1836; the exact date is unknown, but he was baptised on 28 September 1836. His father, Charles, was a sailor. In 1853 he was apprenticed to his brother George, who was a master plumber in Chelsea. After his apprenticeship and three years as a journeyman plumber, in 1861 Crapper set himself up as a sanitary engineer, with his own brass foundry and workshops in nearby Marlborough Road.
The flushing toilet was invented by John Harington in 1596. Joseph Bramah of Yorkshire patented the first practical water closet in England in 1778. George Jennings in 1852 also took out a patent for the flush-out toilet. In a time when bathroom fixtures were barely spoken of, Crapper heavily promoted sanitary plumbing and pioneered the concept of the bathroom fittings showroom.
In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as Prince of Wales and as king.
In 1904, Crapper retired, passing the firm to his nephew George and his business partner Robert Marr Wharam. Crapper lived at 12 Thornsett Road, Anerley, for the last six years of his life and died on 27 January 1910. He was buried in the nearby Elmers End Cemetery.
In 1966 the company was sold by then owner Robert G. Wharam (son of Robert Marr Wharam) on his retirement, to their rivals John Bolding & Sons. Bolding went into liquidation in 1969. The company fell out of use until it was acquired by Simon Kirby, a historian and collector of antique bathroom fittings, who relaunched the company in Stratford-upon-Avon, producing authentic reproductions of Crapper's original Victorian bathroom fittings.
Siphonic flush toilet
Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock, but none was for the flush toilet itself. Thomas Crapper's advertisements implied the siphonic flush was his invention; one having the text "Crapper's Valveless Water Waste Preventer (Patent #4,990) One movable part only", but patent 4990 (for a minor improvement to the water waste preventer) was not his, but that of Albert Giblin in 1898. Crapper's nephew, George, did improve the siphon mechanism by which the water flow is started. A patent for this development was awarded in 1897.
Origin of the word "crap"
It has often been claimed in popular culture that the slang term for human bodily waste, crap, originated with Thomas Crapper because of his association with lavatories. A common version of this story is that American servicemen stationed in England during World War I saw his name on cisterns and used it as army slang, i.e. "I'm going to the crapper".
The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff). In English, it was used to refer to chaff, and also to weeds or other rubbish. Its first application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846 under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house."
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Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us ware that on January 27, 1910 English plumber and inventor Thomas Crapper died at the age of 73.
Who is Thomas Crapper
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Images
1. Thomas Crapper in 3-pice suit
2. Thomas Crapper toilet.
3. Thomas Crapper's name on manhole covers in London
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5 Facts About Thomas Crapper BY EMILY PETSKO
Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars Pop-Up Books
You may have heard a tale or two about Thomas Crapper, the Victorian-era inventor and sanitary engineer, but there’s a good chance those stories are untrue. So, in honor of Thomas Crapper Day on January 27 (which this year marks the 110th anniversary of his death), we want to set the record straight. Here are five facts about one of the world’s best-known but least-understood plumbers.
1. NO, THOMAS CRAPPER DID NOT INVENT THE FLUSH TOILET.
The biggest myth about English plumber Thomas Crapper is that he invented the first flush toilet. This would make for an amusing anecdote—"Crapper invented the crapper"—but the fact of the matter is that Crapper wasn’t even alive when the first flush toilet came to be. That dubious honor goes to Sir John Harington (a distant ancestor of Game of Thrones star Kit Harington), who built the toilet in 1596 for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I. (She reportedly complained it was too loud). According to Snopes, many of the myths surrounding Crapper’s accomplishments stem from the 1969 book Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper, which “has often been dismissed as a complete fabrication.”
2. THOMAS CRAPPER DID HOLD OTHER PLUMBING PATENTS.
Unless you’re a plumber, you’ve probably never stopped to appreciate the inner workings of a toilet. That little floating valve inside some toilets that prevents tank overflow is called a ballcock, and Crapper did invent that. Altogether, he held nine patents for his inventions, including designs for water closets (early flush toilets), manhole covers, pipe joints, and drain improvements.
3. THOMAS CRAPPER PLUMBED FOR THE BRITISH ROYALTY.
Crapper’s plumbing company was commissioned to do plumbing projects for some pretty high-profile clients, including the people over at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and the Sandringham Estate. Sadly, any tales that he was knighted by the Queen are untrue.
4. THOMAS CRAPPER OPENED THE WORLD’S VERY FIRST BATHROOM SHOWROOM IN 1870.
This is perhaps Crapper’s greatest claim to fame. At a time when it was considered improper to publicly acknowledge bodily functions, Crapper’s Marlboro Works showroom boldly placed functioning toilets on display—and customers could even try them out before buying them. According to Snopes, an article in Plumbing and Mechanical Magazine argued that Crapper “should best be remembered as a merchant of plumbing products, a terrific salesman, and advertising genius.”
5. YOU CAN STILL SEE THOMAS CRAPPER'S NAME ON MANHOLES IN LONDON.
If you head to Westminster Abbey and look down, you might see a manhole sporting Crapper’s name This is because he re-plumbed the building. According to the Londonist, some original Crapper toilets can also be found around the city—complete with chain-pulls—and a plaque commemorating Crapper’s achievements can be seen outside his former home in the London Borough of Bromley."
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Who is Thomas Crapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9dk2Qk3aUU
Images
1. Thomas Crapper in 3-pice suit
2. Thomas Crapper toilet.
3. Thomas Crapper's name on manhole covers in London
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5 Facts About Thomas Crapper BY EMILY PETSKO
Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars Pop-Up Books
You may have heard a tale or two about Thomas Crapper, the Victorian-era inventor and sanitary engineer, but there’s a good chance those stories are untrue. So, in honor of Thomas Crapper Day on January 27 (which this year marks the 110th anniversary of his death), we want to set the record straight. Here are five facts about one of the world’s best-known but least-understood plumbers.
1. NO, THOMAS CRAPPER DID NOT INVENT THE FLUSH TOILET.
The biggest myth about English plumber Thomas Crapper is that he invented the first flush toilet. This would make for an amusing anecdote—"Crapper invented the crapper"—but the fact of the matter is that Crapper wasn’t even alive when the first flush toilet came to be. That dubious honor goes to Sir John Harington (a distant ancestor of Game of Thrones star Kit Harington), who built the toilet in 1596 for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I. (She reportedly complained it was too loud). According to Snopes, many of the myths surrounding Crapper’s accomplishments stem from the 1969 book Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper, which “has often been dismissed as a complete fabrication.”
2. THOMAS CRAPPER DID HOLD OTHER PLUMBING PATENTS.
Unless you’re a plumber, you’ve probably never stopped to appreciate the inner workings of a toilet. That little floating valve inside some toilets that prevents tank overflow is called a ballcock, and Crapper did invent that. Altogether, he held nine patents for his inventions, including designs for water closets (early flush toilets), manhole covers, pipe joints, and drain improvements.
3. THOMAS CRAPPER PLUMBED FOR THE BRITISH ROYALTY.
Crapper’s plumbing company was commissioned to do plumbing projects for some pretty high-profile clients, including the people over at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and the Sandringham Estate. Sadly, any tales that he was knighted by the Queen are untrue.
4. THOMAS CRAPPER OPENED THE WORLD’S VERY FIRST BATHROOM SHOWROOM IN 1870.
This is perhaps Crapper’s greatest claim to fame. At a time when it was considered improper to publicly acknowledge bodily functions, Crapper’s Marlboro Works showroom boldly placed functioning toilets on display—and customers could even try them out before buying them. According to Snopes, an article in Plumbing and Mechanical Magazine argued that Crapper “should best be remembered as a merchant of plumbing products, a terrific salesman, and advertising genius.”
5. YOU CAN STILL SEE THOMAS CRAPPER'S NAME ON MANHOLES IN LONDON.
If you head to Westminster Abbey and look down, you might see a manhole sporting Crapper’s name This is because he re-plumbed the building. According to the Londonist, some original Crapper toilets can also be found around the city—complete with chain-pulls—and a plaque commemorating Crapper’s achievements can be seen outside his former home in the London Borough of Bromley."
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The Truth About Thomas Crapper
A tiny history lesson on toilets and the guy who didn't invent them, Thomas Crapper.
The Truth About Thomas Crapper
A tiny history lesson on toilets and the guy who didn't invent them, Thomas Crapper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJzSapH9jU
Images:
1. Late 19th century, a London plumbing impresario named Thomas Crapper developed the ballcock, an improved tank-filling mechanism still used in toilets today.
2. Thomas Crapper sink.
3. Thomas Crapper & Company Ltd Victorian Pedestal Wash-down Closets
Background from {[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-true-things-about-sanitary-engineer-thomas-crapper-180965008/]}
Three True Things About Sanitary Engineer Thomas Crapper
Thomas Crapper’s actual innovation was entirely tangential to the flush toilet
By Kat Eschner
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Most of the things people say about Thomas Crapper are, well, crap.
Crapper, who was baptized on this day in 1836, wasn’t really anyone special. Although he did his part to keep the world clean and (relatively) sewage-free, most of what you may have heard about him today is fake.
By all accounts, Crapper was a successful sanitary engineer (plumber) whose greatest innovation was actually the invention of the bathroom fittings showroom, something that brought flush toilets out of the water closet and into the public eye. For the time, the idea of actually displaying any part of the bathroom was scandalous, but Crapper’s innovation helped to create a market for the relatively new and high-investment indoor plumbing that he sold. But years after his death in 1910, the myths began.
The myths can be traced back to a specific source
“Much of the confusion stems from a 1969 book by Wallace Reyburn, Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper,” writes Snopes. This book, which purported to tell Crapper’s story, is proof of the edict that you cannot believe everything you read. Among the other claims it makes is that Crapper was from the north of England but walked to London at the tender age of 11 to become a plumber, rising to become the inventor of the modern toilet. Rayburn, a satirist, had written a previous book about the putative (and non-existent) inventor of the brassiere, Otto Titzling, leading many to believe that Crapper had never existed. But Crapper was a real person who really did work on toilets–perhaps Reyburn ran across his name somewhere and thought the opportunity for satire was too good to pass up.
He didn't hold the patent for the flush toilet or even invent it
Although Crapper was a sanitary engineer, which is funny in itself, he didn’t invent the flush toilet. In fact, writes Elinor Evans for BBC History Magazine, the idea for toilets that flushed dates back to the 1400s. “In 1596, Sir John Harington built a flushing toilet at his house near Bath for the visit of his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I,” Evans writes. “But it was expensive to install, so most people carried on using chamber pots.”
The flush mechanism used in Victorian toilets that developed into the toilets of today dates back to at least 1775, writes Snopes, when a watchmaker and mathematician named Alexander Cumming patented it. “Plumbers Joseph Bramah and Thomas Twyford further developed the technology with improvements such as the float-and-valve system,” Snopes writes.
His name is not where the word "crap" comes from
The word “crap” as a slang for evacuating one’s bowels dates back to before Crapper went into business, writes Evans, which means that his contemporaries may also have found his last name amusing. According to Merriam-Webster, the word has roots in medieval Latin.
“Crapper” as term for toilet, however, may have links to the sanitary engineer. “When U.S. soldiers were based in England in 1917 they probably saw cisterns stamped with ‘T Crapper’ in some public toilets, and may have taken the word ‘crapper’ home with them,” Evans writes. “Certainly, Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang records the word ‘crapper’ as a synonym for a toilet, in use from the 1920s.”
Crapper’s name can still be found on some of London’s sewer infrastructure–namely, manhole covers that read “T. Crapper & Co. Sanitary Engineers.”
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A tiny history lesson on toilets and the guy who didn't invent them, Thomas Crapper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snJzSapH9jU
Images:
1. Late 19th century, a London plumbing impresario named Thomas Crapper developed the ballcock, an improved tank-filling mechanism still used in toilets today.
2. Thomas Crapper sink.
3. Thomas Crapper & Company Ltd Victorian Pedestal Wash-down Closets
Background from {[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-true-things-about-sanitary-engineer-thomas-crapper-180965008/]}
Three True Things About Sanitary Engineer Thomas Crapper
Thomas Crapper’s actual innovation was entirely tangential to the flush toilet
By Kat Eschner
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Most of the things people say about Thomas Crapper are, well, crap.
Crapper, who was baptized on this day in 1836, wasn’t really anyone special. Although he did his part to keep the world clean and (relatively) sewage-free, most of what you may have heard about him today is fake.
By all accounts, Crapper was a successful sanitary engineer (plumber) whose greatest innovation was actually the invention of the bathroom fittings showroom, something that brought flush toilets out of the water closet and into the public eye. For the time, the idea of actually displaying any part of the bathroom was scandalous, but Crapper’s innovation helped to create a market for the relatively new and high-investment indoor plumbing that he sold. But years after his death in 1910, the myths began.
The myths can be traced back to a specific source
“Much of the confusion stems from a 1969 book by Wallace Reyburn, Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper,” writes Snopes. This book, which purported to tell Crapper’s story, is proof of the edict that you cannot believe everything you read. Among the other claims it makes is that Crapper was from the north of England but walked to London at the tender age of 11 to become a plumber, rising to become the inventor of the modern toilet. Rayburn, a satirist, had written a previous book about the putative (and non-existent) inventor of the brassiere, Otto Titzling, leading many to believe that Crapper had never existed. But Crapper was a real person who really did work on toilets–perhaps Reyburn ran across his name somewhere and thought the opportunity for satire was too good to pass up.
He didn't hold the patent for the flush toilet or even invent it
Although Crapper was a sanitary engineer, which is funny in itself, he didn’t invent the flush toilet. In fact, writes Elinor Evans for BBC History Magazine, the idea for toilets that flushed dates back to the 1400s. “In 1596, Sir John Harington built a flushing toilet at his house near Bath for the visit of his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I,” Evans writes. “But it was expensive to install, so most people carried on using chamber pots.”
The flush mechanism used in Victorian toilets that developed into the toilets of today dates back to at least 1775, writes Snopes, when a watchmaker and mathematician named Alexander Cumming patented it. “Plumbers Joseph Bramah and Thomas Twyford further developed the technology with improvements such as the float-and-valve system,” Snopes writes.
His name is not where the word "crap" comes from
The word “crap” as a slang for evacuating one’s bowels dates back to before Crapper went into business, writes Evans, which means that his contemporaries may also have found his last name amusing. According to Merriam-Webster, the word has roots in medieval Latin.
“Crapper” as term for toilet, however, may have links to the sanitary engineer. “When U.S. soldiers were based in England in 1917 they probably saw cisterns stamped with ‘T Crapper’ in some public toilets, and may have taken the word ‘crapper’ home with them,” Evans writes. “Certainly, Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang records the word ‘crapper’ as a synonym for a toilet, in use from the 1920s.”
Crapper’s name can still be found on some of London’s sewer infrastructure–namely, manhole covers that read “T. Crapper & Co. Sanitary Engineers.”
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3. Thomas Crapper picture with his signature.
4. vintage style Thomas Crapper toilets one can buy today
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January 27th: On this day in 1910, 106 years ago, Thomas Crapper died. He didn't know his exact birthday, so today is known as Thomas Crapper Day. What did Thomas Crapper do? He did NOT invent the flushing toilet, but he did do much to increase the popularity of the toilet, and developed some important toilet- related inventions, such as the ballcock (float inside the toilet tank).
He was noted for the quality of his products and received several royal warrants. In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant. His firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as Prince of Wales and as king.
It has often been claimed in popular culture that the slang term for human bodily waste, "crap", originated with Thomas Crapper because of his association with lavatories. A common version of this story is that American servicemen stationed in England during World War I saw his name on WC cisterns and used it as army slang- "I'm going to the crapper".
The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff). In English, it was used to refer to chaff, and also to weeds or other rubbish. Its first application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846 under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house.
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1. Thomas Crapper & Company LTC Victorian advertisements
2. Thomas Crapper & Co.'s advertisement
3. Thomas Crapper picture with his signature.
4. vintage style Thomas Crapper toilets one can buy today
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January 27th: On this day in 1910, 106 years ago, Thomas Crapper died. He didn't know his exact birthday, so today is known as Thomas Crapper Day. What did Thomas Crapper do? He did NOT invent the flushing toilet, but he did do much to increase the popularity of the toilet, and developed some important toilet- related inventions, such as the ballcock (float inside the toilet tank).
He was noted for the quality of his products and received several royal warrants. In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later Edward VII) purchased Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Thomas Crapper & Co. to supply the plumbing, including thirty lavatories with cedarwood seats and enclosures, thus giving Crapper his first Royal Warrant. His firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as Prince of Wales and as king.
It has often been claimed in popular culture that the slang term for human bodily waste, "crap", originated with Thomas Crapper because of his association with lavatories. A common version of this story is that American servicemen stationed in England during World War I saw his name on WC cisterns and used it as army slang- "I'm going to the crapper".
The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words, the Dutch krappen: to pluck off, cut off, or separate; and the Old French crappe: siftings, waste or rejected matter (from the medieval Latin crappa, chaff). In English, it was used to refer to chaff, and also to weeds or other rubbish. Its first application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846 under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house.
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