The story of Pittsburgh: Clay products

Clay products (Vol. 1, nr. 9)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623366

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239809

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Title:: Clay products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 9

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: [ca. 24] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Clay Products

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Europe began to form, the art of making brick spread all over the continent, but was carried to a very high state of development in Northern Italy, Southern France, Northern Germany, and the Netherlands, where good building stone was scarce, but clay was abundant. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries brick en- joyed a wide vogue in the erection of the great Gothic structures of that period, and was freely used in the erection of cathedrals, municipal buildings, palaces of the nobles, and residences of the wealthy classes. The brick making industry in England dates from the time of Henry VIII, and was highly developed under Flemish in- fluences. The brick vogue in England continued to expand until the days of Queen Anne and the Georges, when it reached wonderful proportions, and many fine English country houses of that period still remain to testify to the taste of the architects and the durable and satisfying nature of the workmanship. Much adobe construction was found on the American continent, especially in Mexico and Peru, when the Europ- eans first began to penetrate into those interiors, but aside from these early uses of clay, the first brick used on this side of the Atlantic Ocean came from England or Holland, and was brought over with other articles needed in the American wilderness by the pioneers. But in the seven- teenth century the native American brick industry was started, and the Colonial times saw many fine specimens of brick building, from New England in the North, to Virginia in the South. Up to about the year 1880, however, there was no general attempt to use brick to the best ad- vantage. Previous to that time, the brick building was confined to the use of common brick for ordinary construc- tion, or for backing stone-faced walls. From the date mentioned, to the present time, a growing taste has de- manded and secured artistic effects in the brick wall, by the use of especially manufactured face brick, which, in a bewildering variety of beautiful color tones and textures, have been sympathetically and artistically treated by leading architects, all over the United States. as well as in other countries.

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