Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1919 — Steel Pipe Industry. [ARTICLE]

Steel Pipe Industry.

Very few persons realize the varied applications of the prosaic steel or Iron pipe. It has been used for many years as a conduit for water, sewage, steam or gas, but at the present time pipe enters irtjo the 'construction of such varied products as agricultural implements, automobiles, architectural ironwork and grill work, building columns, refrigerating machinery, drykiln apparatus, elevator cars, wheelbarrows, work benches, ornamental gates, elevator grain spouts, safety ladders, warship masts* lighting and high-tension poles, electri<&wiring, railway signal apparatus, sprinkler systems and signal towers. As the variety of uses for tubular products increased and the cost of making steel diminished, there has be£n a change also in material. Fifty years ago nearly, all the screw-joint plpewaa made of wrought iron.