Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 86

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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 86: With Other Selected and Abstracted Papers In hand-brickmaking, as now generally practised, some machinery is nearly always used in the preparation of the clay for moulding the bricks. So long as tho brick is moulded by hand it is called a hand-made brick, even though, as with the Staffordshire marls, machinery is employed in the preparation of the clay, and in the pressing of the brick subsequent to its having been moulded by hand. In olden times all the operations of brickmaking were done by hand, including the digging and weathering of the clay, the tempering, the moulding, and sometimes the dressing after the brick was partially dried, though this last operation was seldom performed oven with the highest class of bricks. It is proposed, in the first instance, to describe the mode of brickmaking usually followed in the Home Counties, which is, in the Author's opinion, the best example of brickmaking by hand, though it has often boon severely criticised. It may be remarked, that each of the systems prevailing in different parts of the country appears to have been gradually adapted, both to the materials at hand for making and burning the bricks, and also to the value of labour, transport, and such-like conditions, in the locality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.