Asphalt-history of using bitumen compositions

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Publish date: May 28, 2019 04:24

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Asphalt-history of using bitumen compositions

Nowadays the use of asphalt become more popular and used by the driveway paving companies on a large scale but the use of asphalt is not new. It is interesting that Neolithic people used bitumen for cooking before ceramic objects. Ancient hunters and fishermen used the astringent nature of bitumen to attach the tip of a coffin or to waterproof the boat. As asphalt bitumens were used by ancient healers. In the first half of the 19th century, the appearance of asphalt and mineral mixtures covering paving stone bridges. According to records of that age, the first pavement of asphalt was laid on the sidewalks of Paris in the 1930s. Almost at the same time, the pavement of the Moran Bridge across the Rhône in Lyon became asphalt paved.

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