I just received the following very important, very urgent, very enlightening press release. They will be providing a video feed about the following:
CONCRETE - WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT IT?AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE CELEBRATES A CENTURY OF INNOVATION
We walk on it, drive on it, build houses, skyscrapers, bridges and dams with it - even transport water to generate electricity with it. It... is concrete - the second most consumed material on the planet - second only to water.
Guiding the production and education for developing and using conrete for the past 100-years is the American Concrete Institute.
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SOME HISTORICAL MILESTONES OF CONCRETE
Historical figures in concrete use:
-Thomas Edison (produced cement, built concrete houses)
-Frank Lloyd Wright (produced great works of concrete)
-Dwight Eisenhower (his work with the interstate system)
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt (his work with dams)Concrete as a means to satisfying basic human needs with concrete:
-Generation of power
-Water treatment (drinking, sanitation)
-Transportation
With such an important material being so vital to "satisfying [our] basic human needs," every television outlet should be jumping at the chance to air this footage. I mean, who wouldn't love to watch cement concrete dry?!
UPDATE: Without concrete, we wouldn't have the lovely L.A. River now, would we? (Thanks to Will Campbell)
Posted by jozjozjoz at April 28, 2004 10:36 AMWork with DAMNS? Please tell me that's a typo.
Posted by: cybele at April 28, 2004 11:08 AMCybele - Ooops, my bad.
FDR worked with DAMS not DAMNS!
Posted by: :: jozjozjoz :: at April 28, 2004 11:14 AM...does this mean that you were up REALLY late? I'm so in awe of this post. really. I am.
Posted by: Meeta at April 28, 2004 12:56 PMI just woke up from a nightmare. Some concrete slab came off the wall of a high-rise and falling on top of me!
Posted by: kinkoman at April 29, 2004 12:54 AM
Amazing... I actually have concrete/cement on the brain right now, since they are jackhammering the sidewalk out front our office building. DIRECTLY underneath our office windows, I may add. and we are all going deaf and getting extremely annoyed.
Posted by: missbrookline at April 28, 2004 10:59 AMYet, I'd be interested in watching the show.
Hmmm....