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Industrial Age

1824

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1824
Technology
England

Portland cement and thermodynamics

Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement as Carnot analysed the limits of heat engines.

Why it mattered

One rebuilt the world in concrete, the other set the laws engines must obey.

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