The cistern and toilet

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Invented by Thomas J Crapper.

did he have a sense of humor?

lol

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Geoffrey]

Huh? Confused I am.

(you misspelled Humour BTW)

[skuzzbag]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:05:26 GMT, The3rd Earl Of Derby babbled:

Tell you what.

I'll give you three guesses where the term crap comes from?

[skuzzbag]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:57:01 GMT, skuzzbag babbled:

I didn't mean to make that all Australian btw!

[Nigel Molesworth]

No it wasn't:

[sponix]

iirc he didn't actually invent it at all, merely market the idea.

sponix

[nightjar]

The water closet was invented by someone, whose name I now forget, in the Court of Elizabeth I. Crapper simply made and sold them in quantity.

Colin Bignell

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Never the less whether you agree or disagree it was the crapper family that improved the sanitation of victorian england, and to me that deserves the merit of the invention to TJCrapper.

Its a bit like "Trevor Baylis", he was supposed to have invented the windup radio, rubbish!! he found the idea in a patent libray which had not been upheld as a patent anymore, so revised the idea and put it into reality.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Andy Hall]

The current company makes some fine replicas, although they are a touch on the dear side. A high level complete set including cistern, pan, flush pipe and throne seat will set you back around £2000.

Note that Thomas Crapper and Company Ltd. own the trademark to the word "crapper".

Thought you'd like to know....

[ctl]

No, but people that adopted and used his name seem to have one.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Nope, thomas crapper was only nine at the time the word was used. :-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Jim Gregory]

Now try the info at this url