Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 314, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1920 — 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 into 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 gatesj elevator grain spouts, safety ladders, warship masts, lighting and high-tension poles, electric 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 been a change also in material. Fifty years ago nearly all the screw-joint pipe waa asM* of wrought trod. -