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Copper pipes & brick bathrooms

Eleanor Konik
Aug 01, 2022
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I've been thinking a lot about the civil engineering projects that underlie pre-industrial cities, and sewers are a really important part of that. They're also a lot older as a technology than I realized... but also, when I was doing the research for this, my son saw one of the practical engineering videos and I spent about half an hour watching big ani…

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