1. Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46

   …living in the Hunslet district of Leeds, [[Yorkshire]]. In his kitchen the inventor heated a mixture of finely ground limestone and clay in his stove and ground the mixture into a powder to create a hydraulic cement that hardened with the addition…
   …le="Portland cement" class="left" }} == A Recipe for Success == The specifications for the new cement read: a very pure limestone was to be burned to lime, the lime mixed with a definite quantity of clay, and the mixture pulverized wet. The wet mixt…
   … == A Classic Title == Aspdin called the product Portland cement because when set, it resembled '**Portland stone**', a limestone that is quarried on the Isle of Portland off the British Coast. Portland stone was then, and still is today, a prestigi…

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