HALL S BRICK-MAKING MACHINE. 
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HALL’S BRICK-MAKING MACHINE. 
The engraving given above, represents a ma¬ 
chine for making bricks, invented by Mr. Alfred 
Hall, late of Coxsackie, New York, and patented 
by him in Great Britain as well as in the United 
States. Its construction is so perfect that five men 
and a horse can make, with ease, 8,000 bricks in a 
day, and place them on the drying-floor. - It is 
coming into extensive use both in England and in 
this country, particularly in Rochester and Cox¬ 
sackie, N. Y., and in Charlestown, Massachusetts. 1 
No machines are sold except with a right to use 
them in a specified section, generally within the 
limits of a county; although exclusive rights for 
states or larger divisions are sold when wanted. 
As the method of making bricks at the North is 
so very different from that practised at the South, it 
is advisable for Southern brick-makers to employ a 
man well skilled in the business from the North, to 
put them in operation, should they ever have occa¬ 
sion to purchase these machines. 
