who invented the pavement?

Answer 1

The ROMANS... the Appian way was a PAVED ROAD.

Answer 2

Actually according to a TV program paving was largely brought about by the automobile in this country.Concrete was sold as a paving substance but Asphalt took over in dominance as it was cheaper and a by product of the growing petroleum industry. Even though concrete is considered more durable. Brick has been used also.
I think prior to that "paving"was actually made by cobbling stone into a relatively flat surface as the Romans did.
Timber has been used as in "Plank Roads"
I don't know that you could actually come up with the sole person responsible for "pavement".

Answer 3

At a rough guess, I would say the ROMANS, they sort of designed the road, and aquaducts, so yes, pavements would probably be part of their inventions?

Answer 4

Why Al Gore of course. He also invented the Internet, started the global warming myth, and he invented pants.

Answer 5

No one as such. It is a general term

Pavements really started with cordorying (sp wrong, saplings being laid across road) of boggy roads to prevent wagons wheels being bogged.

Some places used stones, but these pre date the Romans.

Generally paving a road is to put something/a covering on it.

Answer 6

If you mean concrete, the substance commonly known today as "Portland Cement" was first developed by Roman builders who were trying to develop a substitute for granite that had the same appearance as the natural substance.

In Serbia, remains of a hut dating from 5600 BC have been found, with a floor made of red lime, sand, and gravel. The pyramids of Shaanxi in China, built thousands of years ago, contain a mixture of lime and volcanic ash or clay.

The Assyrians and Babylonians used clay as cement in their concrete. The Egyptians used lime and gypsum cement.

During the Roman Empire, Roman concrete made from quicklime, pozzolanic ash/pozzolana and an aggregate made from pumice was very similar to modern Portland cement concrete. The word concrete comes from the Latin word "concretus" which means "to harden".

The secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until in 1756, the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate. Portland cement was first used in concrete in the early 1840s.

In modern times the use of recycled materials as concrete ingredients is gaining popularity because of increasingly stringent environmental legislation. The most conspicuous of these is fly ash, a byproduct of coal fired power plants. This has a significant impact by reducing the amount of quarrying and landfill space required, and, as it acts as a cement replacement, reduces the amount of cement required to produce a solid concrete.

The properties of concrete have been altered since Roman and Egyptian times, when it was discovered that adding volcanic ash to the mix allowed it to set under water. Similarly, the Romans knew that adding horse hair made concrete less liable to crack while it hardened, and adding blood made it more frost resistant.

In modern times, researchers have added other materials to create concrete that is extremely strong, and even concrete that can conduct electricity.

Answer 7

The cousin of the guy who invented dirt.

Answer 8

I think the Romans. I have a friend in Arkansas that thinks asphalt is a rectal complication

Answer 9

Al Gore.

Answer 10

A. Walker.