You say it was a coincidence, but how do we know that his name didn't encourage his invention?

Maybe if his name was Thomas Cureforcancer we would be living in a very different world.

Should let nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk know

Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock.

Kinky.

Well this is a load of...

Another good example of the shit writing of the shit simulation that we are living in.

The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words: the Dutch krappen (to pluck off, cut off, or separate) and the Old French crappe (siftings, waste or rejected matter, from the medieval Latin crappa). In English, it was used to refer to chaff and also to weeds or other rubbish. Its first recorded application to bodily waste, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, appeared in 1846, 10 years after Crapper was born, under a reference to a crapping ken, or a privy, where ken means a house.

This man was fated to give a crap

Bit harsh calling him a ballcock mate.

I'm a grown man..... I'm a grown man.....

I’m not certain my dad was aware he was not making a joke for all those years

Excuse me, it's pronounced "Crapier." 😤

The... ballcock?

Oh, it's a float valve.