Excerpt from The Journal of the Franklin Institute Devoted to Science and the Mechanic Arts, Vol. 169: Nos. 1009-1014 (85th Year), January-June, 1910 The man who first mixed water with stone and sand and tied them together with cement was the original conservator of nat ural resources. His puddling made it possible to give the house built on the sand the same stability as that founded on the rock. He devised the means of securing for structures immunity from time and the elements. The iron founders have erected statues to Vulcan. It is regrettable that the name Of concrete's inventor should have escaped going down the ages. About the Publisher 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.