Tag: dolosse
South African inventions
Where would you expect to find the inventor of the CAT scan, the makers of the
"speed gun" used in cricket ovals the world over, or the world's first oil-from-coal
refinery?
SA’s wave-breaking dolosse
What started with the toss of bones in African child's play culminated in one of the world's most successful coastal engineering inventions. Dolosse - branching concrete blocks weighing up to 30 tons - are now used across the globe to break up wave action.
