Item - Random Readings: How Fire Bricks Are Manufactured

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 19 no. 48 — page 3
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XIX, no. 48, October 20, 1864 (Issue)
Author:	Pen and Scissors
Date:	October 20, 1864
Edition Description:	Also includes: A Faithful Dog, Showing the Dead, Cause for Thanksgiving, The Strongest Bank in the World, Traits in the Character of the Elephant, The Disentombed City, A Wonderful Plant, and Mourning.
First Sentence:	Could a substance not be obtained capable of withstanding a very high degree of temperature without fusion in furnaces, the smelting of iron and other metals, also the manufacture of glass, together with the practice of most of the modern arts, would be impossible.