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... suitable for making bricks ; Description of the process ; Advantage of being thoroughly burned ; Bricks in the Tower of Babel and walls of Babylon The buried palaces of Nebuchadnezzar , supplying the bricks for building the city of ...
... suitable for making bricks ; Description of the process ; Advantage of being thoroughly burned ; Bricks in the Tower of Babel and walls of Babylon The buried palaces of Nebuchadnezzar , supplying the bricks for building the city of ...
Page ix
... suitable for the manufacture of bricks ; Loams , pure clays , and marls Mixing earths for brick clay ; Trouble of working marls ; Explanations of long or fat clay ; " strong clay " and " weak clay " Substances that impair the plasticity ...
... suitable for the manufacture of bricks ; Loams , pure clays , and marls Mixing earths for brick clay ; Trouble of working marls ; Explanations of long or fat clay ; " strong clay " and " weak clay " Substances that impair the plasticity ...
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... suitable for the manufacture of building bricks is an abundant substance , and is commonly obtained from sedi- mentary or alluvial deposits ; but there is a great difference in the nature and quality of clays found in various localities ...
... suitable for the manufacture of building bricks is an abundant substance , and is commonly obtained from sedi- mentary or alluvial deposits ; but there is a great difference in the nature and quality of clays found in various localities ...
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... suitable size to lay a close joint , while common brick are made roughly , of uneven sur- faces , and laid with a wide , thick joint . In building these walls the facing - course of pressed brick is tied to the main wall of common brick ...
... suitable size to lay a close joint , while common brick are made roughly , of uneven sur- faces , and laid with a wide , thick joint . In building these walls the facing - course of pressed brick is tied to the main wall of common brick ...
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... suitable composition , and it should first be exposed to the weather until its particles are disintegrated , when it can be kneaded into a mass of uniform consistency ; this is best effected by the action of frost , the water diffused ...
... suitable composition , and it should first be exposed to the weather until its particles are disintegrated , when it can be kneaded into a mass of uniform consistency ; this is best effected by the action of frost , the water diffused ...
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Alfred Hall alumina arch arranged blade boards boracic acid borax bottom brick or tile brick-board brick-machine brick-making building bricks burned bricks called cars centre china-clay coal cobalt color common bricks construction cylinder dampers desired diameter dried dry-clay machines drying edge elevation employed enamelled face feet feldspar fire fire-bricks fire-clay fire-door floor flues frame fuel furnaces gangs glaze grates green bricks hand-made bricks heat inches invention kaolin kiln labor lime magnesia manganese manner manufacture material mill mixed mould moulder moulding sand off-bearer one-half openings operation oxide of iron pass Perth Amboy pinion pipe placed plastic plunger portion pounds pressed bricks produced pug-mill pulley pulverized quantity quartz rack revolving ring-pits rollers roof saltpetre sand shaft shape shed shown in Fig side silica steam stone suitable surface tempered clay terra-cotta thickness thousand bricks tion upper usually vertical vitrifiable walls ware weight wheel wheelbarrow zinc
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