Jan 26, 2018

Thomas Crapper Day

Squeezed in between Australia Day and Auckland Anniversary is Thomas Crapper Day on January 27th. Thomas Crapper Day is a holiday devoted to the man who purportedly invented the flush toilet, although he actually did not.

As with many inventions, the flush toilet did not suddenly spring into existence, but was the result of a long chain of minor improvements. Thomas Crapper's plumbing company built flush toilets of Giblin's design.


He was not the original inventor, but popularized the siphon system for emptying the tank, replacing the earlier floating valve system which was prone to leaks. The similarity between Crapper's name and the much older word 'crap' is merely a coincidence.

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