Let us never say that people in olden days were stupid, or
lacked resourcefulness.

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"Jules" wrote
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Actually, solid pipe was invented over 100 years before
hollow pipe.
It was intended for water supply but did not work.

So I hear; they tried weaving big buckets with it, but just
couldn't get
the gaps watertight due to the poor manufacturing tolerances
of the day.

Four generations of
the Pluterchius family worked on improving it, until the
next to
youngest great-grandson, Minimus Plutarchius, invented the
hole.

The material removed when making the hole could of course be
used to make
smaller-diameter solid pipes, intended for supplying smaller
sizes of
water.