A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead RoadLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 465 páginas |
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... common ; but over a great part of these countries the roads are little more than formed , being almost without any pre- pared surface . The roads in Holland are gene- rally carried in undeviating straight lines along that low and flat ...
... common ; but over a great part of these countries the roads are little more than formed , being almost without any pre- pared surface . The roads in Holland are gene- rally carried in undeviating straight lines along that low and flat ...
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... common carrier from Selkirk to Edinburgh , thirty - eight miles distant , required a fortnight for his journey between the two places , going and returning ! The road was originally among the most perilous in the whole country : a ...
... common carrier from Selkirk to Edinburgh , thirty - eight miles distant , required a fortnight for his journey between the two places , going and returning ! The road was originally among the most perilous in the whole country : a ...
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... common habit of overlooking this circumstance has been the source of great error in forming opinions upon the qualities of different kinds of roads . Gravel roads , for instance , to which an appear- ance of smoothness is given by ...
... common habit of overlooking this circumstance has been the source of great error in forming opinions upon the qualities of different kinds of roads . Gravel roads , for instance , to which an appear- ance of smoothness is given by ...
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... common stone . If the stones in making the bottoming are laid with their broadest face downwards , and the inter- stices are filled with stone chips well driven in , the earthy bed of the road cannot be pressed up so as to be mixed with ...
... common stone . If the stones in making the bottoming are laid with their broadest face downwards , and the inter- stices are filled with stone chips well driven in , the earthy bed of the road cannot be pressed up so as to be mixed with ...
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... common roads would never have been accomplished . The public , in fact , are alone to blame for the immense waste of money which has taken place in forcing an excessive rate of speed , and in producing that superfluity of embellishment ...
... common roads would never have been accomplished . The public , in fact , are alone to blame for the immense waste of money which has taken place in forcing an excessive rate of speed , and in producing that superfluity of embellishment ...
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Allesley arch Archway Road axles bottom breadth brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coach coating commissioners constructed contract contractor Coventry cross drains DAVIES GILBERT depôts depth draught dynamometer earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer expense experiments feet wide fences foot footpath fore wheels formed foundation four inches friction gravel ground half hard Hartshill height hill hind wheels Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide instrument John Kershaw John Macneill labour laid length line of road manner masonry ment miles mortar mound necessary nine inches paved pavement placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails rates of inclination repair road-making roadway ruts side channels side springs six inches slopes specification spirit level springs square streets surface surveyor Telford theodolite Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts upper velocity waggon whole wing walls
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Página 20 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?