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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 "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).
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In the United States, modern standard bricks are specified for various uses; [47] The most commonly used is the modular brick has the actual dimensions of 7 + 5 ⁄ 8 × 3 + 5 ⁄ 8 × 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (194 × 92 × 57 mm).
Accrington bricks, or Nori, [1] are a type of iron-hard engineering brick, produced in Altham near Accrington, Lancashire, England from 1887 to 2008 and again from 2015. [2] They were famed for their strength, and were used for the foundations of the Blackpool Tower and the Empire State Building .
For instance, the most frequently used bricks in the USA have dimensions (in inches), which is not harmonic, but a type of brick sold as "Roman brick" has the harmonic dimensions . [ 5 ] De Bruijn's theorem states that, if a harmonic brick is packed into a box, then the box must be a multiple of the brick.
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In the elevation diagram, heading bricks appear in brown, heading three-quarter bats are in green, stretching bricks are in orange, half-bats are in maroon, and queen closers are in pale purple. Obviously everything coloured pale blue in the plan diagrams will -- from the elevation viewer’s viewpoint -- be to the rear of the facing bricks ...