Engineering Practice Lab Manual for first year students

STUDY OF PLUMBING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENTS


INTRODUCTION:
          In the Iron Age, people living in Greece realised the importance of lead and used it for their household Work. They made sheets out of it and also used them to make roof for their houses. They used lead to make lead pipes so that they could transfer drinking and sewage water.
          Lead was called as “Plum bum” in Latin and those who worked on Plum bum are called as plumbers. Plumbing is the work related with fitting, repair of pipe - lines and appliances of water or any other fluids.
          In short, plumbing is the art, which is involved in the design, installation and maintenance of pipe, pipefitting and other accessories in a building. It plays a major role in the construction of every building.

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