Plumber

:For a colloquial American use, see White House Plumbers; in London, see Worshipful Company of Plumbers

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A plumber is a tradesman who specialises in installing and maintaining systems used for plumbing, heating, drainage, potable (drinking) water or industrial process plant piping. (In most jurisdictions the piping for heating systems are installed by steam-fitters, pipefitters or gas-fitters.)

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"If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances."

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White House Plumbers: The White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert Nixon White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971. Its job was to stop the leaking of confidential information (hence the "Plumbers" title) to the media during the Nixon administration. It...

Worshipful Company of Plumbers: The Worshipful Company of Plumbers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation received the right to regulate medi?val plumbers, who were, among other things, responsible for fashioning cisterns, in 1365. It was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1611. Today, the Compan...

Tradesman: A tradesman is a type of worker found in all cultures throughout the world. Tradesmen are skilled manual workers in a particular field. It is safe to consider a tradesman as half-way between a process worker or labourer and an engineer in their field....

Plumber related Images and Photos (experimental)

Passionate Plumber Buster Keaton Polly Moran Jimmy Durante 1932