The brief "battle", between police and strikers, saw law-and-order forces overwhelmed by demonstrators, who threw stones and iron piping before the protesters retreated.
He established the nearby Chester Pipe and Tube Company, from which he could source the large amount of iron piping and quality boiler tubes required for his ships.
Improvements in iron piping permitted running hot and cold water and sanitation facilities to be installed throughout taller buildings for the first time.
Much of the water piping in London is still cast iron piping which dates back to the nineteenth century and is slowly deteriorating.
Although innocuous in processing, it can cause corrosion of iron piping.
"Hooks went through these holes to suspend the whole thing from the iron piping."
A 100-liter oil drum had been sliced in half lengthwise and mounted on a framework of narrow-gauge iron piping.
And then up onto the roofs, King Rat ascending by a stairway of iron piping and broken brick.
Philips opened the door and, walking up to the iron piping that formed the railing, looked down into the semi-circular auditorium.
For potable water use, galvanized iron piping was commonplace in the United States from the late 1800s until around 1960.