The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 439
ick or header is sunk down or merged, as it were, intothe two lower ones. What was before three bricks is now welded into one twinbrick with the bulk of two, plus the thickness of the joint originally connectingthe lower bricks to half of each others sides. We have now a twin stretcherbrick with an… … Fig. Fig- 3 The Architect and Engineer 87 Now a common brick with a crushing resistance of about a ton to the inchis highly porous. Its constituent particles are not closely packed. Under amicroscope its texture would reveal a mass of small cavities. These we shallindicate in plan (Fig. 4) by a…
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