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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]
Sir John Harington invented the first flush toilet as early as 1596, though Alexander Cumming and Thomas Crapper made notable innovations like the S-shaped pipe. While flushing toilets were standardized in the Victorian era, the technology behind them is nearly 500 years old.
In 1775 Scottish inventor Alexander Cumming was granted the first patent for a flush toilet. His greatest innovation was the S-shaped pipe below the bowl that used water to create a seal...
Victorian-era sanitary engineer Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet, but he did make key innovations in plumbing technology.
One of the early developments in toilet technology was made by Sir John Harington, an English courtier and writer, who designed a flushing water closet in the late 16th century. However, his design was not widely adopted.
If you have a sense of potty humor, you may have come across the legend of the English plumber Thomas Crapper, the man who supposedly invented the toilet. After he created the latrine as we...
Joseph Bramah's improved version was the first practical flush toilet. Prolific inventor Joseph Bramah began his professional career installing water closets (toilets) that were based on Alexander Cumming's patented design of 1775. He found that the current model being installed in London houses had a tendency to freeze in cold weather.
Sir John Harington (4 August 1560 – 20 November 1612), of Kelston, Somerset, England, but born in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet. [1]
Invented in 1859 by the Reverend Henry Moule of Fordington, the mechanical units, comprised of a wooden seat, a bucket and separate container, mixed dry earth with feces to produce compost that can be safely returned to the soil.
Despite its ancient origins, the modern flush toilet, as we know today, was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harington. Harington’s design included a bowl to hold the waste and a valve that released water from an elevated tank to wash away the waste.