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Concrete
Patented: History of Inventions
The Origins of Concrete
By the 19th century Britain and increasingly America and several other European nations were starting to exploit fossil fuels on a scale that meant that they had wholly new access to heat. Lime becomes much cheaper to produce so people start thinking about ways in which you can change the building process by substituting cement for stonework, bricklaying or other technologies. So lots of people try lots of things from the late 18th century onwards as ways of substituting skilled stonework or bricklays or other technologies for cement got it so.
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