It's a myth he gave his name to the crapper and thus to crap, he just had an impossibly aposite name. It's true he invented both the ballcock and a design of toilet so widespread it still exists today - there is one in my flat about ten yards away He invented the flushing toilet to about the same extent that Edison invented the lightbulb.
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