Thomas Crapper ( baptised 28 September 1836 ; died 27 January 1910 ) was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London.

Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock, but none was for the flush toilet itself.

Tales from the Crapper was released on DVD in September 2004.

Tales from the Crapper was released on DVD in September 2004.

* Jamie Crapper was the Bees first coach, he was recruited by Mr John Nike OBE.

A similar situation exists with Thomas Crapper, who was a real-life plumber but did not invent the flush toilet.

Thomas Crapper Branding on one of his company's toilets

Crapper lived at 12 Thornsett Road, Anerley, for the last thirteen years of his life and died on 27 January 1910.

* September 26 – Thomas Crapper, plumber, inventor ( d. 1910 )

Contrary to widespread misconceptions, Crapper did not invent the flush toilet.

Thomas Crapper & Co owned the world's first bath, toilet and sink showroom, in King's Road until 1966.

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.

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.

In 1904, Crapper retired, passing the firm to his nephew George and his business partner Robert Marr Wharam.

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.

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* Thomas Crapper & Co. Ltd .-the plumbing company founded by Thomas Crapper

Troma's financial hardship worsened after the botched funding of a low-budget video feature titled Tales from the Crapper, which cost $ 250, 000 despite most of the footage being completely unusable.

* Thomas Crapper patents a flush toilet in London.

It would not be long, however, before Troma would once again experience financial hardship, this time after the botched funding of a low-budget video feature titled Tales from the Crapper, which cost $ 250, 000 despite most of the footage being unusable.

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Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

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By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

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And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

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