The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Tile

Thin bricks, or plates of baked clay, differing in shape according to their use. They are employed for the roofs of buildings, also for pavements. Some finer kinds for the latter purpose are known as encaustic tiles. Tilted Steel is cemented steel made stronger by hammering under the tilt. See CEMENTATION.

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