How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 136
Fig. 47. — Filling a Kiln. HOW BRICKS ARE MADE 119 as pressed bricks. A finer quality of clay is re-quired for these, than for ordinary bricks. Whenthe clay comes from the mold, it is in the form of along bar. This has the same width and thickness … Fig. 48. — General View of a Brickyard. as a brick, but may be fifteen or twenty times aslong. This bar of clay is moved along by ma-chinery to a great wheel or cylinder havdng wirespokes. The distance between two adjacentwires is equal to the width of a brick. As the 120 HOW WE ARE SHELTERED wheel…
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