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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. [2]
Wallace Macdonald Reyburn OBE (3 July 1913 – 20 June 2001) [1] was a New Zealand-born humourist author and rugby writer who was responsible for a number of well-known urban legends, including the widespread belief that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper and that the brassière was invented by Otto Titzling.
Crapper is slang term for a toilet. It may also refer to: Caganer (transl. "the crapper"), a figurine depicted in the act of defecation appearing in nativity scenes in Catalonia; Thomas Crapper, an English plumber and holder of patents on toilets (baptised 28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910) Frank Crapper (1911–1991), Australian footballer
A toilet [n 1] is a piece of ... William Elvis Sloan invented the Flushometer in 1906, ... "Crapper" was already in use [citation needed] as a coarse name for a ...
The S-bend pipe was invented by Alexander Cummings in 1775 but became known as the U-bend following the introduction of the U-shaped trap by Thomas Crapper in 1880. The first screw-down water tap was patented in 1845 by Guest and Chrimes, a brass foundry in Rotherham. [116]
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Crapper's death certificate records that he died from colon cancer. He was buried in the nearby Elmers End Cemetery.[1] Posthumous fate of the Crapper company In 1966, the Crapper 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.
Contrary to popular legend, Sir Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet. He was, however, in the forefront of the industry in the late 19th century, and held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock. In 1880, Thomas Crapper introduced the U-shaped trap.