Part I. =Plain Undecorated Pottery.=--=Clays=: Classification; General

Properties and Composition; Working of Clay-Pits--Open Pits--Underground Pits. Preparation of the Clay. =Bricks=: Hand and Machine Moulding-- Expression Machines--Dies--Cutting-tables--General Remarks on the Choice of Machines--Types of Installations--Estimates--Plenishing, Hand and Steam Presses--Drying, by Exposure to Air, Without Shelter, and Under Sheds--Drying-rooms in Tiers, Closed Drying-rooms, in Tunnels, in Galleries--Detailed Estimates of the Various Drying-rooms, Comparison of Prices--Transport from the Machines to the Drying-rooms--Firing--In Clamps--In Intermittent Kilns--Continuous Kilns: with Solid Fuel: Round Kiln, Rectangular Kiln, Chimneys (Plans and Estimates)--With Gas Fuel, Fillard Kiln (Plans and Estimates), Water-gas Kiln--Heat Production of the Kilns; Dimensions, Shapes, Colours, Decoration, and Quality of Bricks--Hollow Bricks, Dimensions and Prices of Bricks, Various Shapes, Qualities--Use of Bricks--Walls, Arches, Pavements, Flues, Cornices-- Facing with Coloured Bricks--Balustrades. =Tiles=: Manufacture-- Moulding, by Hand, by Machinery: Preparation of the Clay--Preparation of the Slabs, Transformation into Flat Tiles, into Jointed Tiles--Screw, Cam and Revolver Presses--Particulars of Tile-presses--Drying-- Planchettes, Shelves, Drying-barrows and Trucks--Firing--Divided Kilns--Installation of Mechanical Tileworks--Estimates; Shapes, Dimensions and Uses of the Principal Types of Tile--Ancient Tiles-- Foreign Tiles--Special Tiles--Ridge Tiles, Coping Tiles, Border Tiles, Frontons, Gutters, Antefixes, Membron, Angular--Roofing Accessories: Chimney-pots, Mitrons, Lanterns, Chimneys--Qualities of Tiles--Black Tiles--Stoneware Tiles--Particulars of Tiles. =Pipes=: Conduit Pipes-- Manufacture--Moulding: Horizontal Machines, Vertical Machines--Drying --Firing--=Chimney Flues=--Ventiducts and "Boisseaux," "Waggons"-- Particulars of these Products. Quarries: Plain Quarries of Ordinary Clay; of Cleaned Clay--Machines, Cutting, Mixing, Polishing--Drying and Firing--Applications--Particulars of Quarries. =Terra-cotta=: History--Manufacture--Application: Balustrades, Columns, Pilasters, Capitals, Friezes, Frontons, Medallions, Panels, Rose-windows, Ceilings--Appendix: Official Methods of Testing Terra-cottas.