 | Robert E. Brown - 1869 - 538 Seiten
...and those which lie parallel with the line of wall are termed " stretchers." Bricks are usually made nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and two and a half to three inches thick. To build a nineinch brick wall, it will take six hundred and sixty bricks to... | |
 | Robert E. Brown - 1869 - 564 Seiten
...Thin bricks are usually the best, as they are burned more equally ; but generally they are made about nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and two and a quarter inches thick. " In estimating the quantity of brickwork, ascertain by calculation the number... | |
 | Robert E. Brown - 1869 - 554 Seiten
...Thin bricks are usually the best, as they are burned more equally; but generally they are made about nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and two and a quarter inches thick. " In estimating the quantity of brickwork, ascertain by calculation the number... | |
 | Robert E. Brown - 1869 - 564 Seiten
...Thin bricks are usually the best, as they are burned more equally; but generally they are made about nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and two and a quarter inches thick. " In estimating the quantity of brickwork, ascertain by calculation the number... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1872 - 198 Seiten
...used by the bricklayer are bricks and mortar, which you have already had described. Common bricks are nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and two and a half inches thick ; the breadth, you see, being exactly half the length. Walls are spoken of as being one brick,... | |
 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1886 - 1520 Seiten
...form of a double-threaded screw. The flue was six feet in diameter and 100 feet high. The bricks were four and a half inches wide and two and a half inches thick. Mr. Borden. — That chimney had a stone base about fifteen feet high, and the iron tube was... | |
 | Sir William Henry Preece, James Sivewright - 1891 - 416 Seiten
...part of this mixture, and the compound thus obtained is cooled on marble slabs. Daniell Battery • 17 and a half inches wide and two and a half inches deep. The porous cells are then filled to about one-third of their height with crystals of copper sulphate,... | |
 | Sir William Henry Preece, Sir James Sivewright - 1901 - 466 Seiten
...thin copper plate four inches square. Opposite the porous pot in each cell is placed the zinc plate, four and a half inches wide and two and a half inches deep. The porous cells are then filled to about one third of their height with crystals of copper sulphate,... | |
 | 1907 - 456 Seiten
...houses were built of English bricks. That meant that the bricks were of the standard English size : nine inches long, four and a half inches wide, and two and a half inches thick. Dutch bricks are six inches and a quarter long, three inches wide, and one inch and a half thick.... | |
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... quality. First-class bricks give a clear ringing sound when struck, and are of a red and brown colour, and exhibit a fine texture when broken. Bricks which are of a pale colour are not of good quality. Thin bricks are usually the best, as they are... 