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The story of the Welsh inventor who discovered Tarmac

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Edgar Purnell Hooley was born in Swansea in June 1860 and worked as a civil engineer. In 1901 he discovered a smooth stretch of road in Denby, Derbyshire. By 1902 he had patented a process of adding slag to heated tar and breaking stones within the mixture to create a smooth, sold surface. He made Radcliffe Road in Nottingham the world's first Tarmac road.

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The story of the Welsh inventor who discovered Tarmac

He made the discovery by accident

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Wales Online broke the news in Wales, United Kingdom on Sunday, November 19, 2023.
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