"RobertL" wrote in message
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On Jul 10, 8:31 am, RobertL wrote:
On Jul 10, 3:12 am, "nightjar" nightjar@insert my surname

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"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
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OK, so we all 'know' who invented the vacuum cleaner - Hoover.
Except
that he didn't - he bought the idea from Spangler. But Hoover
brought the
vacuum cleaner to the world as a commercial product.


.. and let's not foget Thomas Crapper who invented the flushing
toilet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

From the article you sited "Thomas Crapper did not invent the flush toilet
".
The Romans had flushing toilets BTW.