Mechanical Bricklayer

The latest device in the way of labor saving machinery is what is described as a "mechanical bricklayer" for use in "automatically laying, cementing and leveling bricks, slabs, stones and the like in the construction of fortifications, piers, bridges, viaducts, warehouses, dwelling houses and buildings of every description." Such an apparatus has this week been patented, in Great Britain and abroad by a Birmingham consulting engineer and his son, who claim that it will save two thirds of the time occupied in laying bricks by hand.