Asphalt concrete pavement
Hormigón asfáltico (pavimento moderno)
- Date
- 1870–1901 · confidence high
- Place
- Newark, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Edward de Smedt (Newark 1870; Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, 1876); Edgar Purnell Hooley (tarmac, Nottingham, 1901); Frederick Warren (Bitulithic, 1901)
- People
- 👤 Edgar Purnell Hooley1860–1942👤 Edward De Smedt👤 Frederick Warren1775–1848
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Mixture of aggregate and bitumen compacted hot, smooth, waterproof and dust-free. Together with British tarmac, it created the road fit for the automobile.
What it led to
- Road and motorway networks (Autobahn, Interstate)
- Suburbia and road transport
- Consumption of oil-refining by-products
Built on
- Macadam (McAdam)
- Natural asphalt from Trinidad and Val-de-Travers
- Oil refining
Made possible
- Motorway
- Paved aerodrome
- Paving machine