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... Vitrified " -Early Clay Products - First Brick - kiln in United States - Production of Paving- brick - Manufacture of Paving - brick - Crushing the Clay - Screening -Pugging - Moulding - Repressing - Drying - Burning - Changes of Clay ...
... Vitrified " -Early Clay Products - First Brick - kiln in United States - Production of Paving- brick - Manufacture of Paving - brick - Crushing the Clay - Screening -Pugging - Moulding - Repressing - Drying - Burning - Changes of Clay ...
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... vitrification may be as regular and even as possible . Just how much of these fluxes can exist in a clay without de ... vitrified . A shale brick is harder , denser , and more brittle than one made of fire - clay . The latter absorbs ...
... vitrification may be as regular and even as possible . Just how much of these fluxes can exist in a clay without de ... vitrified . A shale brick is harder , denser , and more brittle than one made of fire - clay . The latter absorbs ...
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... vitrification " is defined in the Century Dictionary as " conversion into glass , or in general into a material ... vitrified means that a chemical action has taken place so that the clay particles have coalesced and become fused by ...
... vitrification " is defined in the Century Dictionary as " conversion into glass , or in general into a material ... vitrified means that a chemical action has taken place so that the clay particles have coalesced and become fused by ...
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... vitrify in this sense of the word . Many engineers , there- fore , have decided upon the absorption test as the proper one to determine to what degree a brick has become vitrified . A thor- oughly vitrified brick breaks with a smooth ...
... vitrify in this sense of the word . Many engineers , there- fore , have decided upon the absorption test as the proper one to determine to what degree a brick has become vitrified . A thor- oughly vitrified brick breaks with a smooth ...
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... vitrified products . Perfectly satisfactory clays are not often found in a natural state . Burned or dried clay has been in use as pottery or bricks for many centuries . Pottery has been made by all prehistoric races , with the single ...
... vitrified products . Perfectly satisfactory clays are not often found in a natural state . Burned or dried clay has been in use as pottery or bricks for many centuries . Pottery has been made by all prehistoric races , with the single ...
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Page 402 - All loss or damage arising out of the nature of the work to be done under this agreement, or from any unforeseen obstructions or difficulties which may be encountered in the prosecution of the same...
Page 412 - ... authorities, and •whenever required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe. In the case of neglect of any corpo-ration to make these pavements or repairs after the expiration of thirty days' notice to do so, the local authorities may make same at the expense of such corporation." The street-car companies, however, have not always lived up to this requirement, and it was stated in a paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers in December, 1896, that bills aggregating...
Page 412 - Every street surface railroad corporation so long as it shall continue to use any of its tracks in any street, avenue or public place in any city or village shall have and keep in permanent repair that portion of such street, avenue or public place between its tracks, the rails of its tracks, and two feet in width outside of its tracks, under the supervision of the proper local authorities, and whenever required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe. In case of the neglect of...