Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Brick Manufacture and Brick Pavement
The art of brick making is supposed to have originated in ancient times with the powerful races found in Egypt, Chaldea and China in the Old World, and in Mexico and Peru in the New. The ruins of buildings and tombs left in these countries testify that they were skillful builders. Rawlinson states that the dimensions of bricks baked by the Chaldeans were 11¼ inches square and 2½ inches thick, and those of a later date 13 inches square and 3 inches thick. All are familiar with the Egyptian method of tempering clay with a stick and drying in the sun three thousand years ago. Compare the ancient method with the practice at the present time in any small town where bricks are made, or even at the brick yards on the Hudson; there pug mills will be found in operation which are only a combination of several sticks and a mule; and green bricks are still dried in the sun the same as was practiced by the ancients, showing little advance in three thousand years.
Brick Manufacture and Brick Pavement
The art of brick making is supposed to have originated in ancient times with the powerful races found in Egypt, Chaldea and China in the Old World, and in Mexico and Peru in the New. The ruins of buildings and tombs left in these countries testify that they were skillful builders. Rawlinson states that the dimensions of bricks baked by the Chaldeans were 11¼ inches square and 2½ inches thick, and those of a later date 13 inches square and 3 inches thick. All are familiar with the Egyptian method of tempering clay with a stick and drying in the sun three thousand years ago. Compare the ancient method with the practice at the present time in any small town where bricks are made, or even at the brick yards on the Hudson; there pug mills will be found in operation which are only a combination of several sticks and a mule; and green bricks are still dried in the sun the same as was practiced by the ancients, showing little advance in three thousand years.
Brick Manufacture and Brick Pavement
Calkins, F. A. (Autor:in)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 26 ; 363-426
01.01.2021
641892-01-01 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Unbekannt
Brick manufacture and brick pavement
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1892
Engineering Index Backfile | 1893
Engineering Index Backfile | 1893
Engineering Index Backfile | 1893
Engineering Index Backfile | 1905