The tube-benders heated small sections of a long, hollow glass tube and quickly bent them into shape.

弯管匠加热长而中璃管一小部分，然后快速将它们塑形。

In workshops like Claude's, artisans known as tube-benders made neon signs by hand.

像克劳德这样工作间中，是由被称为弯管匠手工艺作霓虹灯广告牌。

This so-called S-trap was later improved into the modern U-bend by Thomas Crapper— though the term " crap" predates the inventor by several centuries.

这种所谓 S 型弯管后被 Thomas Crapper 改进为现代 U 型弯管——尽管术语“废话”比发明者早了几个世纪。