The Clayworker's Hand-Book

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Excerpt from The Clayworker's Hand-Book: A Manual for All Engaged in the Manufacture of Articles From Clay During recent years the manufacture of bricks, tiles, pottery, and other articles from clay has extended considerably, and along with the growth of numerous factories has sprung up a considerable literature on the subject of clayworking. This information is, however, contained almost entirely in a number of large and expensive volumes (which are beyond the reach of most of those engaged in the actual manufacture), and in a large number of trade and scientific journals and papers, many of which, being in French and German, are quite inaccessible to the ordinary worker. The present volume embodies an attempt to sift out from this mass of material such information as an extensive experience in clayworking has shown to be of value, and to express it as far as it is possible to do so, in language which will be understood by any intelligent man. Various matters, especially in the section devoted to Tests and Control, are inserted chiefly with a view to showing something of the amount of checking and control which is possible. The trouble and exactitude required in order to carry out several of the tests mentioned may be beyond the power of the ordinary reader, but may prove useful to that increasing class of clayworkers - those who have passed through some training in a technical school. The information is necessarily somewhat condensed, and those who wish for more detailed information are referred to the larger standard works - a list of which is given, but it will be found that much of the material (being original contributions of the author and others to various learned societies and technical papers) is not contained in any of those books. Although care has been taken to mention authors and discoverers whenever their names have been known, it is not possible to include all in so short a volume, but the author hereby acknowledges his thanks to all those clayworkers, known and unknown, who have enabled him to place this information before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.