Reports of the Massachusetts commissioners to the exposition at Vienna, 1873With special reports prepared for the Commission . ght ofeach piece is three feetfive inches; breadth,two feet five inches;and depth, one foot fourinches. The terra-cotta productions of this establishment are tobe seen not only in the principal public buildings and pal-aces of Vienna, but abound in Prague, Pesth, in Athens,Smyrna and Bucharest. They are exported to Germany,Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Asia and America. In this branch of their business the company employthree hundred and fifty workmen, and four l
Reports of the Massachusetts commissioners to the exposition at Vienna, 1873With special reports prepared for the Commission . ght ofeach piece is three feetfive inches; breadth,two feet five inches;and depth, one foot fourinches. The terra-cotta productions of this establishment are tobe seen not only in the principal public buildings and pal-aces of Vienna, but abound in Prague, Pesth, in Athens,Smyrna and Bucharest. They are exported to Germany,Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Asia and America. In this branch of their business the company employthree hundred and fifty workmen, and four large burningovens twenty-two feet in diameter for the large pieces ofterra-cotta ware, besides smaller ovens and mufiies forburning-in the colors of the majolica ware. The company have two extensive depots for their goodsin Vienna, besides a stock of samples for exhibition in thelower story of the engineers and architects transportation from the works is by railways, canals,and common roads. There are also local tramways, uponwhich horses are used. There are about nine hundredhorses belonging to the terra-cotta, brick, etc. 311 Vienna Brick Manufacture. The nature of the brick made by the company hasalready been explained in part, in describing their remark-able exhibition. It is sufficient to say that they makealmost every standard form of brick, for corners, cornicesand arches, similar to those made by the Rennberg Worksin Berlin, of which a full suite of figures is given glazed and enamelled bricks appear well, and will, nodoubt, be largely used in exterior and interior decoration;and, also, for walls of dairies, kitchens, stables, and simi-lar places, the walls of which require washing. The manufacture of bricks and tiles in the Vienna valleyundoubtedly dates from the occupation by the Romans,seventy years after Christ. Excavations in the old citybring to light quantities of bricks, of various sizes andforms, and among them those of Roman m
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