• The word “plumbing” comes from the word plum bum, which is Latin for lead. ...
• The Tremont Hotel in Boston became the country's first hotel to incorporate indoor plumbing in 1829.
• Since 1963, there has been enough copper piping installed in American homes to wrap around the Earth 200 times – about 5.3 million miles worth.A plumbing drawing is used to show clearly the location of fixtures, sanitary ware, pipework, valves and so on, and illustrates how fresh water is to be supplied into a building and waste water removed.