Brick and Thin Brick
Located in Tempe, Arizona
and serving Tucson, and all of the Phoenix metropolitan area including
Gilbert, Chandler, Scottsdale, Mesa and Glendale Kaiser Tile Brick,
Stone and Wood is able to supply all of your brick, brick paver, dairy
and brewery acid brick as well as thin brick needs. Below is a short
synopsis on the history of brick.
The oldest shaped bricks found date
back to 7,500 B.C. They have been found in Çayönü, a place located in
the upper Tigris area, and in south east Anatolia close to Diyarbakir.
Other more recent findings, dated between 7,000 and 6,395 B.C., come
from Jericho and Catal Hüyük. From archaeological evidence, the
invention of the fired brick (as opposed to the considerably earlier
sun-dried mud brick) is believed to have arisen in about the third
millennium BC in the Middle East. Being much more resistant to cold and
moist weather conditions, brick enabled the construction of permanent
buildings in regions where the harsher climate precluded the use of mud
bricks. Bricks have the added warmth benefit of slowly storing heat
energy from the sun during the day and continuing to release heat for
several hours after sunset.
The Ancient Egyptians and the Indus Valley Civilization also used
mud brick extensively, as can be seen in the ruins of Buhen, Mohenjo-daro
and Harappa, for example. In the Indus Valley Civilization all bricks
corresponded to sizes in a perfect ratio of 4:2:1.
The ancient Jetavanaramaya stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is one
of the largest brick structures in the world
The world's highest brick tower of St. Martin's Church, Landshut,
completed in 1500. In Sumerian times offerings of food and drink were
presented to "the Bone god," who was "represented in the ritual by the
first brick." More recently, mortar for the foundations of the Hagia
Sophia in Istanbul was mixed with "a broth of barley and bark of elm"
and sacred relics, accompanied by prayers, placed between every 12
bricks.
The Romans made use of fired bricks, and the Roman legions, which
operated mobile kiln, introduced bricks to many parts of the empire.
Roman bricks are often stamped with the mark of the legion that
supervised its production. The use of bricks in Southern and Western
Germany, for example, can be traced back to traditions already described
by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
In pre-modern China, brick-making was the job of a lowly and
unskilled artisan, but a kiln master was respected as a step above the
latter. Early descriptions of the production process and glazing
techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's
manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li
Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central
government's construction agency. The historian Timothy Brook writes of
the production process in Ming Dynasty China (aided with visual
illustrations from the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedic text published in
1637):
Let Kaiser Tile in Tempe,
Arizona and serving Tucson, and all of the Phoenix metropolitan area
including Gilbert, Chandler, Scottsdale, Mesa and Glendale supply all of
your brick, brick paver, dairy and brewery acid brick as well as thin
brick needs.
From Wikipedia