Edison Cement Built Yankee Stadium

In 1922, American inventor Thomas Edison's financially struggling Edison Portland Cement Company supplied the concrete used to build the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Edison adapted fine waste sand from his ore-milling business to produce harder, more durable concrete, and the stadium project used 45,000 barrels of his cement. However, bankruptcy did not end the company shortly after the stadium opened in 1923; the Great Depression forced it to dissolve in December 1931. Its successor, the Edison Cement Corporation, continued producing cement until June 1942.

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