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Show Conorete Not Modern. Concrete Is a very' ancient material for construction, but re'nforced concrete con-crete is scarcely naif a century old. It is said to have started in a happy idea that came to a Frenchman who wanted large flower pots for his plants which should not be thlik and clumsy. He reinforced them with wire. Nowadays Now-adays we see glass reinforced in the same way, especially about elevatro shafts. Colgnet and others 'developed the reinforcement of concrete for buildings, build-ings, at first merely useful buildings like conservatories.. As earr as 1874 a concrete vlUa was bulK on the north shore of Long Island sound, but it was many years before the idea "took" nere, although in France, Belgium end Germany it was seized upon with avidity. avid-ity. Smith's Magazine. "'..'. |