Craft, Trades & Making · Electrical & Plumbing
A topic within Electrical & Plumbing, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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George B. Clow
Treats the wiped lead joint, made by hand-shaping molten solder around a pipe with a moleskin pad, as the test of a plumber's skill, and works through its geometry in enough step-by-step detail for an apprentice to reproduce it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026National Bureau of Standards
Sets minimum plumbing practice as a public-health problem of protecting the water supply from contamination, deriving pipe sizing and venting rules from that one principle rather than trade custom.
link checked 17 Sept 2026