Thomas Crapper was a Yorkshireman who, at the age of eleven walked from Thorne in Yorkshire to London to become a plumber. This illustrated biography describes how he became a sanitary engineer and invented the modern toilet.
Paul Sample Knihy
Considered by the author to be almost a work of science fiction, the book includes among its "characters" St Augustine, James Joyce and a man who is in danger of turning into a bicycle. There is also the first published portrait of the mad scientist, who was later to achieve fame as de Selby.