OLD WATER PIPE MADE OF WOOD (Jan, 1929)
OLD WATER PIPE MADE OF WOOD
THIS relic of bygone days in Chicago was recently unearthed when workmen digging the excavation for a power plant came across a length of wood pipe. Made of logs drilled through the center and reinforced by iron bands, the bore was lined with copper sheeting rolled into a tube. John Walsh is shown above with some of the lengths and a piece of the copper tubing. The wooden pipe is no longer used, but the idea of non-corrosive copper for long life water pipe is present day practice.