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Leadless Decorative Tiles, Faience, and Mosaic Volume 1; Comprising Notes and Excerpts on the History, Materials, Manufacture & Use of Ornamental Floo - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...1876. The yearly capacity is estimated to be--of glazed and decorated tile, 1,250,000 square feet; of encaustic and plain tile, 700,000 square feet; of vitreous and ceramic tile, 800,000 square feet; burned with natural gas, which was adopted about twelve years ago. The Old Bridge Enamelled Brick and Tile Co., of Old Bridge IV./.), were established in 1889 by Messrs. W. E. Rivers and G. W. Harrison. Their yearly capacity is stated to be of glazed and decorated tiles 625,000 square feet, and of vitreous tiles 200,000 square feet, the fuel used being coal. The Maywood Art Tile Co., May wood, New Jersey, are the successors of The Elterich Art Tile Stove Works, which were founded in 1889 by Gustav L. Jaeger and Henry Lindenmeyer for the manufacture of a tile stove, which, however, did not meet with the desired success. In December 1892 that company was reorganized as a tile factory under the name of Maywood Art Tile Co. by the same people, and Ernst Bilhuber as active partner and manager. The plant is situated along the N.Y.S. and W.R. Railway, whose anthracite coal, egg size, is used as fuel for the kilns. This firm have a capacity for producing 200,000 square feet annually of enamelled tiles, and about 50,000 square feet annually of vitreous floor-tiles. The Cambridge Tile Manufacturing Co., of Covington (A/.), state that their plant was established in the year 1887 by A. W. Kock, Heinrich Binz, and F. W. Braunstein. For fuel they use coal, and their yearly capacity in enamelled white wall-tile and decorated tile is about 900,000 square feet, and in vitreous and ceramic tile about 600,000 square feet. The American Encaustic Tiling Co., Ltd., of Zanesville, Ohio: President, B. Fischer; Vice-President, John Hoge; Treasurer, E. Kohler; Secretary, W. H. Fischer; ...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231886056
- ISBN 13 9781231886052
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages140
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