Portland cement

Industrial · Construction · 1824

TL;DR

Portland cement - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Portland cement - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Enabling Materials

  • Roman cement
  • Coade stone

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Portland cement:

Ferrocement Modern Portland cement

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Modern Portland cement Ferrocement

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Construction

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