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Excerpt from The New Stone Age

And so illustrations might be chosen from nearly every form of human activity to emphasize how we have come to take as a matter of course great numbers of products that have resulted from long periods of development. We owe too much to cement to be satis fied with a like condition, and in the following pages something Of its development and history is given to remind those who use it of the work that cement and its products represent, and to leave the reader more appreciative of this modern construction material.

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Excerpt from The New Stone Age

Whenever an industry experiences a comparatively short period of rapid development and its products are attractive for a very wide variety of uses there is almost sure to be a rich literature of considerable extent. In the case of cement and concrete much of the record concerns the application of the material and less of it than there should be is devoted to a discussion of the laws and principles underlying the whole industry.

In any direction an abundance of material is to be found on our subject. The newspapers record this or that unique application. The technical and scientific press frequently devotes pages to timely discussions and any periodical concerned with nearly any phase of engineering is almost sure to refer to cement and concrete in every issue.

The author has consulted and drawn from this store of information at every opportunity but obviously has not been able to review it all. He wishes to make acknowledgment for the assistance that has been received from Prof. Alfred H. White of the University of Michigan, H. Colin Campbell of the Portland Cement Association, Nathan C. Johnson and his old friend S. H. Salisbury, Jr.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.