Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have seen 2000 years? old bricks in Roman constructions - bricks are at least as resilient as Leica M?s I have always been told ;-) Stone, limestone for instance, is just as fuji or Sony, melts away under fairly normal circumstances, and worse whenin an acidic environment. Thanks for the feedback Amities Philippe > Le 13 janv. 2021 ? 17:33, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a > ?crit : > > I have not heard anything of its having been moved, so I suspect that the > original brick foundation was replaced in place as it failed. Stone does > not exist here, so brick would have been the foundation of choice of for a > nice home. The poor would have used stump sized wood, often tree cross > sections. > > Any stone here is imported. The town I live in has several walls/fences, > but rarely buildings of stone. These were cast off ballast from visiting > merchant ships. > > ric > > > >> On Jan 13, 2021, at 10:42 AM, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> >> wrote: >> >> I notice that concrete building blocks serve as pillars, and I wouldn?t >> think their ? invention ? is as old as the house itself. The bricks >> though, attest of much older established. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information