Crapper Collection

Patent drawing for Thomas Crappers sanitary innovation, the Water Waste Preventer, 1880s
WATER WASTE PREVENTER. Patent drawing for Thomas Crappers sanitary innovation, the Water Waste Preventer, 1880s

Thomas Crapper & Co Ltd, Kings Road, Chelsea, London
View outside the premises of Thomas Crapper & Co Ltd (opened 1907), 120 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, with a royal coat of arms above the door. Date: circa 1908

CRAPPER TOILET, 1890s. Illustration of a Thomas Crapper toilet, 1890s

Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies, WW1
Private A C Crapper bringing up a limber of supplies to the trenches under heavy fire. After the horses had bolted, 670 Private Crapper of the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion

THOMAS CRAPPER (1837-1902). English sanitary engineer. Thomas Crapper and his workmen testing his design for the water closet cistern. Drawing by his grandniece, Edith B. Crapper

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Thomas Crapper (1837-1902), the pioneering English sanitary engineer, revolutionized the world of hygiene with his innovative inventions in the late 1800s. His patent drawing for the Water Waste Preventer, or the S-trap, in the 1880s, transformed the humble toilet into a modern convenience. By the 1890s, Thomas Crapper & Co Ltd, based in Kings Road, Chelsea, London, was manufacturing the CRAPPER TOILET, a symbol of progress and comfort. Even Sheffield Wednesday Football Club adopted this modern convenience in their stadium in 1905. During World War 1, Private A C Crapper carried on the legacy, bringing up supplies with the same ease and convenience that Thomas Crapper had introduced decades earlier. Thomas Crapper's ingenuity continues to shape our daily lives, making him a true unsung hero of the modern world.