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unusual facts about plumbing



1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike

Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was the EA's first vice-president; grocery store president Frank H. Armstrong of Reid, Murdoch & Company the second vice-president; and William E. Clow, president of plumbing manufacturer J.B. Clow & Co. the secretary.

Advanced Gay

Troy consults Abed (Danny Pudi) about choosing between plumbing and air conditioning.

Amoebiasis

The most dramatic incident in the USA was the Chicago World's Fair outbreak in 1933 caused by contaminated drinking water; defective plumbing permitted sewage to contaminate water.

Arthurdale, West Virginia

She intervened with Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and with others to ensure that the Arthurdale homes were built with modern necessities such as insulation and indoor plumbing.

Caroline Gardner Bartlett

At Yvetot, working with the French army's sanitary service, Bartlett created a hospital from a deserted building in need of indoor plumbing, electrical wiring, and heat.

Critical environment construction

In some instances a project may require sophisticated HVAC, electrical or plumbing solutions while other projects may require extreme structural or engineering solutions.

Drainage in New Orleans

The Sewerage & Water Board found A. Baldwin Wood, a young engineer who not only supervised the plans for improved drainage and pumping, but also invented a number of improvements in pumps and plumbing in the process.

Eli Chesen

He sometimes attaches electronic or hardware objects, such as water faucets, to his oils as with “Duchamp Meets Home Depot", an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s sea changing work with plumbing art.

Estey Organ

He arrived in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1835 at age 21 to work in a plumbing shop which he soon bought and thereby began his long career as a successful businessman.

HM Prison Full Sutton

Employment and training is also available in various prison workshops including bricklaying, painting and decorating, plumbing, recycling, textiles, contract services, Braille transcription, catering and industrial cleaning.

House plan

Floor plans will also indicate rooms, all the doors and windows and any built-in elements, such as plumbing fixtures and cabinets, water heaters and furnaces, etc.

James Trane

Reuben Trane, James' son, earned a mechanical engineering degree (B. S. 1910) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and joined his father's plumbing firm.

Joseph A. Maynard

He worked as a manufacturer of plumbing supplies and was a director of the F.W. Webb Company, Fidelity Trust Company, Hibernia Savings Bank, and the McAuliffe Company.

Leicester College

The vocational home of the College, Freemen’s Park has a professional Hair and Beauty salon, working kitchens which supply a bistro and silver service restaurant and Construction workshops where learners can train in plumbing, brickwork, woodwork, painting and decorating.

Mechanical insulation

Systems that often require insulation in commercial buildings include all HVAC systems; pipe, duct, and equipment; hot and cold domestic plumbing pipe and equipment; roof drain pipe; emergency generator exhaust systems; and kitchen hood exhaust ductwork.

Milele

The panel technology involved paneling with pre-set plumbing and electricity being filled with a quick drying building material known as Moladi Chem.

Objections to evolution

Philosopher Robert Pennock makes the comparison that evolution is no more atheistic than plumbing.

Ratos

After that the company expanded into new areas, including a larger number of transport companies, the hotel chain Scandic Hotels and the plumbing chain Dahl International.

Rebecca Howe

In the episode of the Cheers spin-off series Frasier called "The Show Where Sam Shows Up", Sam visits Frasier and tells him that Don left Rebecca after he made a fortune on a plumbing-related invention, and Rebecca was "back at the bar".

Roger L. Hanson

Born in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, Hanson went to Dakota Business College and was in the retail hardware and heating and plumbing business in Vergas, Minnesota.

Ron Todd

After completing his national service, Todd returned to plumbing and then worked in the Ford factory in Dagenham, where he joined the TGWU.

Swing Parade of 1946

The Stooges rework several bits they performed with Ted Healy at MGM: the plumbing sequences are adapted from Meet the Baron and some of the waiter gags are borrowed from Beer and Pretzels.

The Three Stooges Collection

Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944) (partial remake of A Plumbing We Will Go)

Uniform Mechanical Code

The 2012 Uniform Mechanical Code is supported by the American Society of Sanitary Engineering (ASSE), the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors National Association (PHCC-NA), the United Association (UA) and the World Plumbing Council (WPC).

Wolds College

This covers bricklaying, painting and decorating, plastering and plumbing.

Wolseley plc

In 1982 it entered the United States market by acquiring Ferguson Enterprises, a distributor of plumbing supplies with around 50 branches on the East Coast of the United States.


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