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It is a little known fact for those not schooled in the history of plumbing that Sir Thomas Crapper did not invent the modern toilet. In fact the history of the toilet dates back to ancient times. The Babylonians had water toilets as did the Romans. The invention of the water closet by Alexander Cummings in 1775 was merely a return to a tradition of indoor plumbing after a thousand dark years of European barbarism where cities had been made into cesspools. It took a hundred more years for the WC to gradually make its way into mainstream use with chamber pots, privies, and street gutters remaining the most common receptacles of "night earth" in cities until close to the 20th century. Thomas Crapper (not even a knight of the realm, actually) was the holder of several patents for toilet-related water valves and drains including the "Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer". It is theorized that the association of Crapper with the toilet was a result of doughboys of the Great War seeing his name emblazoned on the plumbing fixtures in many WCs.

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