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Timeline
Ancient
Egypt
Egyptians used calcinated gypsum to give brick or stone structures a
smooth coating. Ancient Greece A similar application of calcinated
limestone was used by the ancient Greeks.
Ancient
Rome
The Romans frequently used broken brick aggregate embedded in a
mixture of lime putty with brick dust or volcanic ash. They built a wide
variety of structures that incorporated stone and concrete, including
roads, aqueducts, temples and palaces.
1774
John Smeaton had found that combining quicklime with other materials
created an extremely hard material that could be used to bind together
other materials. He used this knowledge to build the first concrete
structure since the Ancient Romans.
1816
The first concrete bridge (not reinforced) was built in Souillac,
France.
1825
The first modern concrete to be produced in America is used in the
construction of the Erie Canal. It used cement made from "hydraulic
lime" found in New York's Madison, Cayuga, and Onondaga counties.
1897
The Sears Roebuck Co. offered item #G2452, a barrel of "Cement,
natural" at $1.25 per barrel; and Item #G2453, "Portland cement,
imported" at $3.40 per 50 gallon barrel.
1901
Arthur Henry Symons designed a column clamp to be used with job-built
concrete forms.
1902
August Perret designs and builds an apartment building in Paris that
uses what he called "the trabeated system for reinforced
concrete". It was widely studied and imitated, and deeply influenced
architecture and concrete construction for decades.
1905
Frank Lloyd Wright began construction on the famous Unity Temple in
Oak Park, Illinois. Taking three years to complete, Wright designed the
massive structure with four identical sides so that his expensive formwork
could be used multiple times.
1908
Thomas Alva Edison built 11 cast-in-place concrete homes in Union, New
Jersey. Those homes are still in use. He also laid the first mile of
concrete road near New Village, New Jersey.
1914
The Panama Canal was opened after decades of construction. It features
three pairs of concrete locks with floors as thick as 20 feet, and walls
as much as 60 feet thick at the bottom.
1921
The vast, parabolic airship hangars at Orly airport in Paris were
completed.
1933
U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz was opened. The first inmates were the
prison work gang that built it.
1973
The Opera House in Sydney, Australia opened. It's distinctive concrete
peaks quickly became a symbol for the city.
1993
The John F. Kennedy Museum in Boston was completed. The dramatic
concrete and glass structure was designed by renowned architect I. M. Pei.
Today
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are made of high quality materials and are affordably priced, attractive
and durable.
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