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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. He founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London, a plumbing equipment company.
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.
Died: Thomas Crapper, ... English manufacturer who popularized the flush toilet ... 53, prolific African-American inventor nicknamed "the Black Edison", died of a ...
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
Sylvester H. Roper, inventor of the eponymous steam-powered bicycle, died of a heart attack or subsequent crash during a public speed trial in 1896. It is unknown whether the crash caused the heart attack or the heart attack caused the crash.
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. Crapper's death certificate records that he died from colon cancer. He was buried in the nearby Elmers End Cemetery.[1]
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John Day (c. 1740–1774) was an English carpenter and wheelwright who died during a test of his experimental diving chamber. [ 29 ] Horace Lawson Hunley (1823–1863) was a Confederate American marine engineer who built the H. L. Hunley [ 30 ] submarine and perished inside it as a member of the second crew to face drownings while testing the ...