Ann Sacks also features ceramic, glass, leather, wood, concrete, and metal tile for any application from dramatic entry way Settings to the kitchen back splash.

''Here are the beginnings of fire and engineering, the origins of pyrotechnology, and the bridge to more recent ceramic and metal technology,'' said Mr Brown.

From inner to outside, the composite pipe consisted of alumina ceramic layer, metal transition layer, white cast layer, carbon atom diffusion layer and nodular cast iron layer.