ABSTRACT
Since before the dawn of history, when primative people first discovered the
red metal, copper has been serving us. The craftsmen who built the Great
Pyramid for the Egyptian Pharaoh Cheops used copper pipe to convey water
to the royal bath. A remnant of this pipe was unearthed some years ago, still
in usable condition, a testimonial to copper’s durability and resistance to
corrosion. Today, nearly 5000 years after Cheops, copper is still used to
convey water and is a prime material for this purpose.
