Vitrified Paving Brick A Review Of Present Practice In The Manufacture Testing And Uses Of Vitrified Paving Brick PDF Download

Excerpt from Vitrified Paving Brick: A Review of Present Practice in the Manufacture, Testing and Uses of Vitrified Paving Brick The following contribution to the literature of paving brick is the result of studies by the writer covering the past eight years. During this period the paving brick industry has had a phenomenal development, as from a scarcely known article that was used in but a few towns, and looked upon with much suspicion, it is now used by nearly all the cities and large towns in this country. It has not only won its recognition as a standard article for street paving, but is found to be even more reliable than most materials used for this purpose, when surrounded by the safeguards required in municipal engineering. As the industry is still in the infancy of its development, the merits of vitrified brick are not yet as widely known as it deserves, and this contribution is offered as a review of the present practice, which has considerably advanced since the publication of Prof. Ira Baker's valuable pioneer brochure in 1891 ("Brick Pavements"). Mr. C. P. Chase also published a similar paper in 1891 ("Brick Pavement"), which is mainly written for the city engineer. Mr. M. D. Burke published a valuable contribution in 1892, which is based on tests made at Cincinnati, and contains many pungent remarks that are especially interesting to the municipal engineer. 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.