Common fact: The city cannot be developed without a water supply system. And, probably, New York would not have been New York, if at the beginning of the 19th century it had not started using tree trunks as a water pipe.

Workers took spruce, oak or yellow pine and drilled a hole right in the center of the trunks. The result - wooden pipes that tapered at each end, connected to an adjacent pipe, and pulled together with wrought iron clamps. Quite a simple system.

These wooden pipes became the first water pipe in the city and allowed residents to drink clean water and not catch any sores. But clean water = a prosperous city.

The cool thing here is that after a routine inspection in 2006, people found working wooden pipes that were still connected to the city's water mains.

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