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OCR: History of Roof Tile 1844 1st concrete roof tile manufactured by Kroher family in the mountains of Bavaria simple hand operated press was used The output was 125 tiles per day! Concrete roof tile was introduced in Germany during the early 1800 when German farmer made some flat thin slabs of concrete from the new portland cement and used them roof tiles for his barn. Before long, ne had built up small sideline of making tiles for his neighbors. Early records indicate that the First practical power driven machine was Chinese were producing glazed the William Ringsted Powell of improved Denmark the 1920 design in clay roofing tiles 000 years 1925 ago and the Greeks 4.000 1978 concrete tile accounted for 90% all roofs Europe and the South Pacific Basin The elements have not changed a lot, but ...