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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



been used to a greater or lesser extent from a liigli antiquity in 

 continental Europe, and in England terra-cotta trimmings were 

 used in building as early as the fifteenth, century. In the United 

 States this material does not seem to have been introduced until 

 after 1850. Experiments were made in this direction in 1853 by 



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Fig. 44.— Three Kilns. Perth Ambnv Terra Cuttu Coiuiiauy. 



Mr. James Renwick, a prominent New York architect, but the 

 innovation was not received with favor by builders. In 1870 the 

 Chicago Terra Cotta Company brought over from England Mr. 

 James Tavlor. superintendent of the well-known works which 



