What is something that was made over 100 years ago and still wor

2021-02-26 豬包包的羊藏屁

What is something that was made over 100 years ago and still works today?
How about TWO THOUSAND years ago?

Welcome to ROMAN CONCRETE.
I』d say 「most people」 have never tried Roy Rodger’s chicken.

Roy Rogers has 48 restaurants in operation. You can find them in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, New York and New Jersey, according to their website’s restaurant locator. None of them appear to be in large metropolitan areas. I』d say the majority are out in the sticks.

As for their chicken, it doesn’t look all that inviting. I mean, it looks like fried chicken but nothing I』d get too excited about.


See, it’s just fried chicken. It might taste great but considering their limited number of locations, and the fact that they’re hidden away in rural areas, fewer people could tell you about it than Popeye’s or KFC.

I think they would be more successful if they promoted themselves better. The Roy Rogers concept is dated too. Young people, whom they should be targeting, have no idea who the cowboy/actor Roy Rogers was, so there’s little connection between them and their market.
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Roman concrete, unlike modern concrete, actually gets STRONGER with time. Many of their existing buildings and constructed wonders like aqueducts and such have survived for 2000+ years as a result, as opposed to modern concrete that tends to break down after 50 to 100 years.


(from Popular Mechanics)

[By analyzing the mineral components of the cement taken from the Pozzuoli Bay breakwater at the laboratory of U.C. Berkeley, as well as facilities in Saudi Arabia and Germany, the international team of researchers was able to discover the 「secret」 to Roman cement’s durability. They found that the Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock to form a mortar. To build underwater structures, this mortar and volcanic tuff were packed into wooden forms. The seawater then triggered a chemical reaction, through which water molecules hydrated the lime and reacted with the ash to cement everything together. The resulting calcium-aluminium-silicate-hydrate (C-A-S-H) bond is exceptionally strong.][1]

Science has been analyzing this for years now, and have found that this version of concrete is not only stronger and gets better over time, but actually uses far fewer greenhouse gases to manufacture as well. All of these from millennia past and their creations will outlast ours.

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