How about when smurf tube got invented. Seems like it got accepted pretty darn quick. Carlon must have hosted some really good parties.
Actually it didn't get in the code the first time that it was proposed...it had to wait to the next code cycle, and there was litagation that lasted for years and reached the Supreme Court. It seems that the steel conduit people paid for a number of their people to join the NFPA, go the May meeting where the code is voted on and vote that Article out of the code. One of the changes made after that was a 6 month delay between joining the NFPA and being able to vote at meetings.
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