Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 199
et, passing through a box made of cresoted yellow pine. At the sidewalk a service box (shown in elevation in Fig. 10 and section Fig. 11) is situated. In Fig. 10 the supply pipe may be seen at -4, while the return pipe is indicated at B. These pipes A and B enter the box and there terminate in a… … its asbestos cocks, each service box is enabled to supply three houses From the service box to the inside of the house wall — usually a distance of not more than eight feet —copper pipe is employed in preference to iron pipe. The advantage of copper pipe in this location is very obvious when it is…
Engineering
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