| History of Cement and Cement Mixers | | | | when automobiles started to become popular. Mixers |
| Cement mixers are a way of carrying and mixing | | | | were first seen as trays that were heated over coal |
| cement while you are working to repair a foundation, | | | | fires. Aggregate was dried in this tray, than asphalt |
| sidewalk, or building a mold. Cement is mostly known | | | | would be poured on top of it. This mix was then stirred |
| to be made out of asphalt, which stands for secure in | | | | by hand. Drums were soon after invented to be used, |
| the ancient Greek language. | | | | and soon wheels were added in order to make it |
| Cement is a mixture of several different types of | | | | easier for the building of roadways and sidewalks. |
| materials. This includes sand, limestone and asphalt. | | | | These were known as floating screeds and were |
| Asphalt and cement were found to be used beginning | | | | popular until the 1960s. |
| in 625 BC in Babylon as well as in Greece. The idea of | | | | By the 1970s, these types of construction were |
| this secure foundation was lost for centuries, and | | | | becoming a concern with the environment. This |
| began to be experimented with beginning in the 1500's. | | | | caused even better technology to be produced in |
| After much exploration, European's found that this type | | | | relation to cement mixers. The mixtures that are being |
| of material was being used in Venezuela. They took | | | | used now have an increased improvement with |
| the idea and began to use cement for re-caulking | | | | mixture, allowing for less noise, skid resistance, and |
| ships. | | | | weather resistance. |
| Road building using cement became popular in | | | | Because of the ability to use the cement mixer in |
| America in the middle of the 1800's. This was part of | | | | relation to the types of roads and sidewalks that are |
| the revolution that began with the industrial age. | | | | being built, it is allowing for greater roadways and |
| Cement was first taken from natural resources, such | | | | sidewalks. It has also caused the major modes of |
| as the lakes that were in Trinidad. However, by the | | | | transportation to be supported by this type of rock. |
| beginning of the 1900's, the mixture for roads and | | | | More than ninety-four percent of the ground that is |
| pavement began to be a mixture of several different | | | | used for transportation is made out of cement. The |
| types of rocks. | | | | cement mixer plays an important role in making sure |
| Cement mixers first became popular in the 1920's, | | | | that this secure surface is made. |