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Thomas Crapper: A Peculiar History (Part 2)
With a name like “Crapper,” how could he not have invented the toilet? It’s perfect. Too perfect. The universe may have a sense of humor, but sadly, in this instance, the joke is on us. “Sir John Crapper” never really existed. But Thomas Crapper, the plumber, did. And unfortunately, while he was a marketing genius and a brilliant plumber, even going so far as to become the official Royal Sanitary Engineer to British Royalty in the last decades of the 19th Century, he did not invent the modern flush toilet.