Inventor, Businessman. He is remembered for his many inventions including the inside toilet, which he patented in 1778. Born in Stainborough, Yorkshire, England, a farming community, he broke his ankle badly at the age of sixteen leaving him with a limp, thus preventing him from becoming a farmer. Since he was going to be a farmer, he had received the basic local education with no real college, but had developed the engineering ability of taking anything apart and putting it back together. Looking for a means of having income, he studied woodworking with the village carpenter becoming a cabinet maker. Besides cabinets, he made violins. At this point, he relocated to London in hopes for a better life opening a cabinetmaking shop. One of his early clients was Alexander Cumming, a man who made toilets. The vale system on Cumming's toilets did not work properly, hence Bramah invented a better one and given credit for not only the cabinet but the toilet. The idea of moving water from one place to another was his main focus for several years. In 1785, he proposed a concept of moving ships by the means of screws. He suggested replacing the paddle wheel with propellers for improved and faster movements of ships. Born Joe Bremmer, he changed his name to Joseph Bramah believing it sound more professional. He became interested in making a burglar-proof lock that no one could pick. After inventing this lock, he offered an award for anyone who could pick the lock. Eventually 67 years later in 1851, this was done by an American mechanic in an 51-hour ordeal. Changing to a much smaller key, this lock was made with intricate details, thus expensive to make. He hired a blacksmith, Henry Maudslay, to mass produce the lock, which was the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution. Maudslay proved to be a genius with this task. Bramah insisted on a systematic quality control of his locks, a procedure that had never been done. Besides his locks and toilets, he invented the hydraulic pump in 1795, the beer engine that hand-pump beer from a cask in 1797, a wood-planing machine in 1802, paper making machine in 1805, a machine for numbering bank notes in 1806, a device for uprooting trees, a machine for making fountain pens in 1808, and a process for making better guns. Technically, the hydraulic pump is a device that was capable of exerting several thousand tons of pressure to shape or move pieces of iron and steel. In today's world, his system is still used in car-jacks and brakes on automobiles. With his name engraved on the handle, a version of his beer pump is still being used today. In his lifetime, he held eighteen patents and mentored many other young inventors such as John Mathews and Maudslay. While working on a project of uprooting trees in the Alice Holt Forest in Hampshire, he became sick, developing pneumonia and dying. In 2006, the industrial township of Bransley, England opened a pub honoring his name.