reinforced concrete

composite building material
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Summary

reinforced concrete ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,069 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Joseph Monier[2]
  • Made from material: concrete[3], reinforcing bar[4]
  • Subclass of: composite material[5]
  • Commons category: Reinforced concrete[6]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1853[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Reinforced concrete[8]
  • Described by source: Dresdner Hefte[9]
  • Different from: composite construction[10], Железобетон (значения)[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]
  • P14470: Objects/Reinforced_Concrete[13]
  • P14541: qWNGA[14]

Why It Matters

reinforced concrete has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 94 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Araz Yaquboglu · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Reinforced concrete
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Topic's main category: Category:Reinforced concrete"
  2. 12w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Reinforced_Concrete
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Reinforced_Concrete, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → qWNGA
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 17w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Stara Synagogue
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1790844, adds FactGrid ID"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0209967-zelezobeton
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0209967-zelezobeton, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → composite construction, Железобетон (значения)
    Persée article id → hista_0992-2059_2013_num_72_1_3439
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2625093
    Aliases → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 11670, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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