User:Johncflood

John C. Flood has been providing the Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and Maryland areas with plumbing, air conditioning, heating & electrical services for over 100 years.

John C. Flood started in Northwest Washington, DC in 1904 originally named J.C. Flood & Co. Inc. Primary services offered back then were plumbing, heating, tinning and guttering. Residential Air Conditioning would not be introduced for another 16 years. The American engineer best known for inventing the modern air conditioning is Willis Haviland Carrier and he first submitted drawings for the design on July 17, 1902. Now as the population began to spread out and away from Washington, DC John C. Flood expanded it plumbing and heating services to Arlington, Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia and Fairfax, Virginia.

Now John C. Flood may have started offering plumbing services from day one, but plumbing has been around for thousands of years - maybe not in North America since we only got on the plumbing bandwagon a couple hundred years ago. Just to give you an idea King Minos of Crete had the first flushing water closet (toilet) in recorded history and that was over 2800 years ago. The toilet, water closet or whatever you want to call it did not reach the United States until the 1880's and only then were they found in luxury hotels and wealthy people.

Currently John C. Flood offers all the following services: Plumbing, Heating, Air Conditioning, Electrical, Sump Pumps, Standby Generators, Water Heaters, Water Mains, Sewer Drains and Bath & Kitchen Remodeling services.

Some interesting facts about the year 1904 when John C Flood started in the plumbing business  The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years. Only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. Only 8% of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11.00. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour.</li> <li>The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.</li> <li>A competent accountant could expect to earn $2,000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year.</li> <li>A veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year.</li> <li>A mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.</li> <li>More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.</li> <li>Ninety % of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."</li> <li>Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.</li> <li>Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.</li> <li>Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.</li> <li>Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason.</li> <li>The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:</li> </ul> <ol> <ol>1. Pneumonia and influenza</ol> </ol> <ol> <ol>2. Tuberculosis</ol> </ol> <ol> <ol>3. Diarrhea</ol> </ol> <ol> <ol>4. Heart disease</ol> </ol> <ol> <ol>5. Stroke</ol> </ol> <ul> <li>The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.</li> <li>The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30!</li> <li>Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.</li> <li>There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.</li> <li>Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 % of all Americans had graduated high school.</li> <li>Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!)</li> <li>Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time servant or domestic.</li> <li>There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S.</li> <li>There was no income tax........There was no central bank......The dollar was a defined unit .....The United States was a rising economic powerhouse....Wars were declared by Congress .....</li> </ul>