brickmaking
Americannoun
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Origin of brickmaking
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Children are doing every step of the brickmaking process.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
It’s where coal dust was first added to the clay mixture in 1815, which halved burning time in the kilns, and where Richard A. Ver Valen invented the first automatic brickmaking machine in 1852.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
Johnston writes that Yarrow was known for his brickmaking, his basket-weaving and his swimming prowess in the Potomac River.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2015
She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
The Romans made the best ones, some of their buildings having defied the elements for seventeen centuries, and their mantle, as to brickmaking, has fallen upon the Dutch.
From Homes and How to Make Them by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
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