125th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL<br>The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association Celebrates 125 Years
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Nineteenth-century plumbing was laborious work.
Plumbers had to fabricate much of their own pipe and fittings. The ready-made
materials that were available had no common specifications or standards. One
manufacturer’s product typically would not connect with another’s. Plumbers had
to be ingenious mechanics to figure out ways to put a workable system together
from disparate materials.