Flushed with Pride The Story of Thomas Crapper

Reyburn, Wallace.

ISBN 10: 035604727X / ISBN 13: 9780356047270

Published by Macdonald, London, England, 1969

About this Item

Trade Paperback in Very Good condition, tightly bound with a clean, unmarked text. Filled with many black & white illustrations and photographs through the book." A biography of Thomas Crapper, plumber by appointment to Edward VII, and the man who revolutionised the nation's water closet. "; 7.10 X 4.80 X 0.20 inches; 96 pages. Seller Inventory # 18654

Bibliographic Details

Title: Flushed with Pride The Story of Thomas ...

Publisher: Macdonald, London, England

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

The extraordinary biography of Thomas Crapper, the man who revolutionised the nation’s water closet and was plumber By Appointment to Edward VII.

Thomas Crapper was born of a humble family in the Yorkshire town of Thorne in 1837. At the age of eleven he walked from Thorne to London in search of work, where he began as a plumber. He went onto be a sanitary engineer and his fame was secured by the invention of Crapper’s Valveless Water Waste Preventer in 1872, became the father of the modern cistern system.

This highly entertaining, informative and illustrated biography of one of the great unsung engineers of the Victorian era was published in 1969 and has been in print ever since, selling over 200,000 copies. It has been rightly called ‘the little classic of the smallest room.’ and establishes Crapper as one of the figures of the industrial age.

About the Author:

Wallace Reyburn has written 25 books including novels, biography, humour, sports writing and military history. He lives in London