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Glass brick. Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and form. Glass bricks provide visual obscuration while admitting light. The modern glass block was developed from pre-existing prism lighting principles in the early 1900s to provide ...
Roman bricks in the Jewry Wall, Leicester. The 20th-century bracing arch in the background utilises modern bricks. Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter ...
A piece of vitrified brick. Clinker bricks are partially- vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings . Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shiny, dark-colored coating. [ 1] [ 2][ 3] Clinker bricks have a blackened ...
A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include regular tilings with regular ...
The Baroque glass pattern was made by Fostoria from 1937 to 1965, and used for stemware and many types of tableware. [74] The Chintz pattern was made from 1940 to 1973. This etching pattern is a drawing of branches leaves and flowers, and was usually on the Baroque glass pattern. [75] The Colony pattern discussed earlier was introduced around ...
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A wood-burning brick oven. A masonry oven, colloquially known as a brick oven or stone oven, is an oven consisting of a baking chamber made of fireproof brick, concrete, stone, clay ( clay oven ), or cob ( cob oven ). Though traditionally wood-fired, coal -fired ovens were common in the 19th century, and modern masonry ovens are often fired ...
Brickwork. Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called courses [ 1][ 2] are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall . Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by size.