Edgar Purnell Hooley
(1860-1942)
Died aged c. 82
Wikidata WikipediaEdgar Purnell Hooley (5 June 1860 – 26 January 1942) was a Welsh inventor. After inventing tarmac in 1902, he founded Tar Macadam Syndicate Ltd the following year and registered tarmac as a trademark. Following a merger in 2013 the business became Tarmac Limited, one of the United Kingdom's largest building materials companies.
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Edgar Purnell Hooley 1860-1942 highway engineer, inventor and journey maker. Nottinghamshire County Surveyor who pioneered the use of asphalt with a patented mixture, to turn Radcliffe Road into the world's first Tarmac road
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