Journal Entry 1 by angellica from Worksop, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Monday, August 21, 2006

Synopsis
The biography of one of the great unsung engineers of the Victorian era. Thomas Crapper was the man who revolutionized the nation's water closets through his invention of Crapper's Valveless Water Waste Preventer in 1872, the forerunner of the modern cistern system. 

Journal Entry 2 by angellica from Worksop, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Thursday, August 24, 2006

Sending to my BRE partner

Happy Birthday ! 

Journal Entry 3 by book-man-8 from Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Friday, August 25, 2006

I got this one from my birthday-buddy "Angellica". Thanks a lot! 

Journal Entry 4 by book-man-8 from Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Friday, September 15, 2006

Well, this book was quite informative and also very amusing! I liked it and I think I will now go to the toilet (WC) with an other look at the technical part... Thanks "Angellica" for this new insight in an everyday issue! 

Journal Entry 5 by book-man-8 at on Wednesday, October 11, 2006

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This one goes to Australia to CatsaLIVE - or is it CatsaLOVE? She won my "leopard" game... 

Journal Entry 6 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, October 28, 2006

Journal Entry 7 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Monday, October 01, 2007

An unsung hero, indeed. Interesting reading & a bit of a laugh. It's a pity all those wonderful Victorian loos have gone now, a real piece of furniture they were. You can see the book itself is a little dated, particularly in that story about the trough in the Aussie pub - they were still men only in the public bar back in 1969.

I loved the quote from Lord Chesterfield writing to his son, so much so that I'll reproduce it here in case I ever want to read it again.
"In 1747 in his classic Letters to his Son, Lord Chesterfield wrote: 'I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the call of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets, in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina; thus was so much time fairly gained; and I recommend you to follow his example. It is better than only doing what you cannot help doing at those moments and it will make any book which you shall read in that manner, very present in your mind.'" Sound advice, no doubt :0) 

Journal Entry 8 by catsalive at Non-Fiction Swap in On BookObsessed, A swap -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, October 14, 2007

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Journal Entry 9 by luckaye from Logan City, Queensland Australia on Friday, October 19, 2007

Thank you!

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