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The builder's practical director; or, Buildings for all classes, containing plans, sections and elevations for the erection of cottages, villas, farm buildings, dispensaries, public schools, &c., with detailed estimates, quantities, prices, &c. .. (1855)

Leipzig, Dresden : A. H. Payne; [etc., etc.] · leaf 146

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AND CONSULTING CHEMIST, LONDON. Cementing materials have been known and employed from the earliest date, and we mayreadily form an idea how soon the constructive faculties of man would lead him, by expe-rience and circumstances, to expand the means of habitation and safety, which nature hadplaced… … -rp^; REMARKS CONCEKNINa THE NATURES OF MOKTAKS AND CEMENTS. 69 The pjTamicls bear evidence of the ciii])loynieiit of lime as a iitortar by the Egyptians: itis probable that gypsum was employed for a like purpose in the earliest tunes. The Etruscans seem to have been the first in Italy to employ…

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