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| Who Invented Concrete? |
| By Greg Vanden Berge |
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Trying to find information on the Internet was very difficult and I
couldn't find one specific individual or even a country who could claim
that they invented concrete. However, I did learn that the Egyptians,
Mesopotamians and even the Greeks knew how to make concrete, but had
very little use for it.
It wasn't until the Romans started getting a little more creative, that
concrete became more popular. Eventually the Romans were building
structures out of concrete like Roman baths, arches, domes and
aqueducts.
There are plenty of these buildings still standing today that were built
over 1500 years ago out of bricks, cement and concrete. Some of the
bridges and buildings that were built during the early days of concrete
construction are still used today.
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The Romans would build bridges out of concrete so that they would be
strong enough and then apply brick and cement to the exterior of them to
make them look a little more pleasant.
Portland cement was created for the first time in Britain, in the early
parts of the 1800s. Joseph Aspdin was granted a patent for processing
and making Portland cement in 1824.
William Aspdin made improvements to his father's Portland cement in
1843, 1848 and then moved to Germany in 1853. According to Wikipedia,
there were plenty of other people who claim that they were the inventors
of Portland cement, but William Aspdin was considered to be one of the
first manufacturers of the product. |
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