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You might file this in your ?EUR??,,????'??Why??EUR??,,????'?? file, but Acme Brick, based in Fort Worth, Texas celebrated its 116th birthday by making a 6,400-pound brick named “Clay.” Clay is 3,000 times the size of your typical puny brick and took 18 months to make at Acme?EUR??,,????'???s Denton plant. About 60 people and more than 100,000 hours of work went into the project! Jamie Panas, marketing assistant with Guinness World Records, reports Guinness has no world’s largest brick listed. To make the brick, workers had to built a kiln around 6,600 pounds of molded clay. Two burners were not sufficient. It took four burners to meet the 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit requirement. The brick cracked four different times during the drying process before the factory succeeded by making plates with cables to hold the brick together. “Clay” will tour Acme Brick facilities across the country before going on display in Denton.
You might file this in your ?EUR??,,????'??Why??EUR??,,????'?? file, but Acme Brick, based in Fort Worth, Texas celebrated its 116th birthday by making a 6,400-pound brick named “Clay.” Clay is 3,000 times the size of your typical puny brick and took 18 months to make at Acme?EUR??,,????'???s Denton plant. About 60 people and more than 100,000 hours of work went into the project!
Jamie Panas, marketing assistant with Guinness World Records, reports Guinness has no world’s largest brick listed.
To make the brick, workers had to built a kiln around 6,600 pounds of molded clay. Two burners were not sufficient. It took four burners to meet the 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit requirement. The brick cracked four different times during the drying process before the factory succeeded by making plates with cables to hold the brick together.
“Clay” will tour Acme Brick facilities across the country before going on display in Denton.
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