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BRIDGE that class of stock brick, in which the process of manufacture has been to largely reduce the bulk of the plastic material by hydraulic pressure before termined. But when there is a shifting burning, giving to the completed brick a smooth surface and great density of body. Pecking, place, sandal, semel brick, are local terms applied to imperfectly burned or refuse brick. Bricks vitrified by excessive heat are termed burr bricks or burrs.
Bricks were manufactured at a remote period of antiquity by the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and some of them, being inscribed with written characters, have been of priceless value in conveying historic facts to the present age. About A. D. 44, bricks were made in England by the Romans, and in A. D. 886 by the Anglo-Saxons under King Alfred. Under Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth the manufacture greatly flourished. The size was regulated by Charles I. in 1625. The following table gives the value of the brick output in the United States in 1918:
Common brick Enameled brick Vitrified paving brick Ornamental brick Front brick Fire brick