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Plumbers Holiday

Rookie_3
Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244
in THE MAIN WALL

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  • Rookie_3
    Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244


    This is the 95th annivesary of the death of Thomas Crapper
    shouldn't there be some kind of plumbers holiday for you guys? :)

    ROOKIE



  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    i just sent him

    a commemerative turd....
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    Oki Rookie *~/:) You see the realavalanche is not missed

    by me the Weezbo *~/:) if that guy wasnt thinking about shhhh... i dont know who is :)i wonder if real avalanche is a real word.who knows...i made it up ,i like it, its real. next job describing Thomas Crappers invention i will refer to the realavalanche of his contribution and test it out on people...
  • toearly_2
    toearly_2 Member Posts: 78


    > by me the Weezbo *~/:) if that guy wasnt thinking

    > about shhhh... i dont know who is :)i wonder if

    > real avalanche is a real word.who knows...i made

    > it up ,i like it, its real. next job describing

    > Thomas Crappers invention i will refer to the

    > realavalanche of his contribution and test it

    > out on people...



    Thomas Crapper
    Thomas Crapper, an industrious plumber, opened his shop on Marlborough Street in London in 1861, and aptly named it The Marlboro’ Works of Thomas Crapper & Company. Crapper continuously tested toilets at Marlboro Works, so much so that he had a 250-gallon water tank installed on the roof of his building. Crapper’s claim to fame is the improvements that he made to the water closet. He invented a pull-chain system for powerful flushing, and an air tight seal between the toilet and the floor. He also patented several venting systems for venting the sewer gas by way of a pipe through the roof.

    To read more
    http://www.334-2151.com/flush.htm

  • toearly_2
    toearly_2 Member Posts: 78


    Thomas Crapper
    Thomas Crapper, an industrious plumber, opened his shop on Marlborough Street in London in 1861, and aptly named it The Marlboro’ Works of Thomas Crapper & Company. Crapper continuously tested toilets at Marlboro Works, so much so that he had a 250-gallon water tank installed on the roof of his building. Crapper’s claim to fame is the improvements that he made to the water closet. He invented a pull-chain system for powerful flushing, and an air tight seal between the toilet and the floor. He also patented several venting systems for venting the sewer gas by way of a pipe through the roof.

    To read more
    http://www.334-2151.com/flush.htm



    To see scans from a Thomas Crapper catalog

    http://www.334-2151.com/

    Lower right hand corner

    David
  • Rookie_3
    Rookie_3 Member Posts: 244


    David, you are a true plumber historian. You forgot to mention he walked 160 miles on his first job. I got that info on a radio station from Dover, NH that reaches Massachusetts. they were asking their morning trivia for January 27th. I wasn't sure if it was ligit or not at first and I wasn't in the truck for a lot of the follow up on it. One way or another every year on January 27th I'll give a special flush for a man named Thomas Crapper and consider myself lucky that at 2:00am on a sub-zero night I'm not walking across the yard to an outhouse.

    ROOKIE
  • Mark Eatherton1
    Mark Eatherton1 Member Posts: 2,542
    Here's a photo of Thomas dog...

    Ever wonder where Thomas was???

    ME
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