A historical account of our most versatile building material, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending on the moon. For seven thousand years concrete has periodically shaped the path of human progress. Reese Palley s fascinating history of this ubiquitous and versatile material chronicles the repeated and often centuries-long losses of the technology and its many reemergences and the cultural, scientific, and engineering accomplishments it has enabled.
Palley takes us from concrete s earliest beginnings, including the startling proof that at least one of the pyramids was partially poured, through the building of the Eddystone Light, to the dramatic.
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