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Joseph Aspdin
1855Mar, 20

Joseph Aspdin

Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
Joseph Aspdin (25 December 1778 – 20 March 1855) was an English cement manufacturer who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824.

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