Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 667
o be applicable to the protection of dwelling-houses, detached buildings, and ships; but it is requisite that public stores, warehouses, manufactories,and large pile of building, be protected by stationary engines of immense power, the construction ofwhich varies materially from that of the… … FIRE ENGINE. 657 FIRE-BRICKS. Used for furnaces and the lining of stoves where great heat is generated, aremoulded in various parts of the United States. At Newark, Amboy, and other places in New Jersey,where the loam contains a considerable amount of sand, they are made in large quantities.…
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