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A Dutchman has designed a machine that takes the sweat out ofbricklaying and also does it in a jiffy, especially in road building. Named Tiger-Stone, the amazing machine can create an instant road ...

An automated machine makes it easy to follow the yellow brick road. When I was a little kid watching The Wizard of Oz, I was in awe of that long and winding brick road. As Dorothy set out on her ...

Brick roads are beautiful and durable, but we don’t see them too often due to the effort it takes to produce them. What once was a labor-intensive, back-breaking job has now become a snap with this ...

Bricks are hot these days, thanks to new feats in technological wizardry. And this week, you can finally see one of the world’s most interesting technologies in New York’s Chinatown: A ...

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