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Yet, somehow I don't see myself ever earnestly emoting to a camera "Thanks to public-works pioneer Thurmond Elias Plefko, the Madison commissioner of waterworks from 1834 to 1872, who installed my city's water system, I am alive today," although technically I suppose its sort of true.
It's me waterworks, doctor, a patient suffering from some disorder of the urinary tract would complain to an uncomprehending physician who thought he had been mistaken for a plumber.
But between water and watt there are fifty-four main entries in Cobuild and 148 in CED . They share such entries as water biscuit and waterworks . But in addition CED alone enters water measurer (a `bug'), Watford (a `town north of London'), etc.
Meanwhile, Reichman and others--posing as German engineers or, in Harmatz's case, a Polish knight--got jobs in the waterworks of Hamburg, Nuremberg, and other cities.
Thus the sign for iron became Fe (from Latin ferrum ), for gold, Au ( aurum ), for silver, Ag ( argentum ), for copper Cu (cuprum) , for lead, Pb ( plumbum —until steel replaced lead pipe for waterworks, plumbers were, and had been since Roman times, workers in lead).