A few days before Christmas in 1824, Joseph Aspdin appeared before the King of England clutching a piece of paper. Beneath the title “Artificial Stone” was a one-paragraph recipe, peppered ...

We use so much of the stuff that the cement industry is responsible, all on its own, for 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In the second half of the 1700s, in England, engineers were ...

In 1824, English stone mason Joseph Aspdin invented Portland cement in his kitchen and patented what has remained the primary material used in concrete ever since. Trouble is, global demand for ...

Always has, since that afternoon in 1824 in Joseph Aspdin’s kitchen. “Cement has been around a very long time,” Bhardwaj said. “People trust that.

The manufacturers of Portland Cement are celebrating the 100th anni- versary of their industry. It was in Leeds, England, 100 years ago, that Joseph Aspdin discovered that a new building material ...

A.S.Ganesh takes a look at portland cement, Aspdin and the patent that links them... On October 21, 1824, English bricklayer Joseph Aspdin received a patent titled “An improvement in the Modes ...

In 1824, a paper in Leeds reported on some progress: "We hear that Joseph Aspdin, bricklayer of this town, has obtained a patent for a superior cement representing Portland stone." This was, at ...

In 1824 an English bricklayer named Joseph Aspdin rediscovered one of the great secrets of the ancient world. Burning limestone and clay together at an incredible heat -- more than 1 482°C ...

This October is also the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Portland cement, the basis of modern concrete, by the stonemason Joseph Aspdin.

In 1824, a paper in Leeds reported on some progress: "We hear that Joseph Aspdin, bricklayer of this town, has obtained a patent for a superior cement representing Portland stone." This was, at ...