In 1824 a builder and his crew were assigned to make a bridge. When building the bridge they never got specific instructions on what to do, how far to go and what materials they needed to build the bridge. Joe Reeky, the project manager, decided that he and his crew would build how they thought a bridge would be built; from one side to the other. They thought that straw or wood would be a horrible idea because if a flood happened it would collapse. They thought all day and all night for an idea on what to build the bridge out of but nothing ever happened. One day one of his new employees, Joseph Aspdin thought maybe if you put cement and water together that would be a strong substance to withstand the heavy currents of the river. Once it was done the anonymous buyer was very pleased with what they had done, he said it was just as he planned, a concrete bridge. The workers were very dumbstruck because they did not expect they would know considering that it had never been made before and they still hadn’t named the substance. I would probably not walk the bridge because it would have been made almost 200 years ago.
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