by Steven Long | Jan 28, 2022 | Construction
In “Making the Impossible Possible: Concrete,” I examine the history of concrete. For 12 millennia, humans have been using concrete to strengthen floors and walls. And as we tweaked its list of ingredients, making it more robust, those walls became roofs,...
by Steven Long | Jan 19, 2022 | Construction, Environment, Pollution
Thomas Alva Edison and concrete. He’s associated with many things, like the lightbulb, the phonograph, the telegraph, batteries, and even the motion picture camera, but concrete? Strange as it may seem, this tireless inventor with more than a thousand patents to his...
