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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... Direction Convexity 234 235 235 236 Hardness 236 Drains 236 Embankment 236 Footpath 236 Side Channels 236 Wastes 236 Fences 236 Parish Roads 241 Surface 241 Convexity 241 Drains 241 Embankment 242 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ROADS , P. 243 ...
... Direction Convexity 234 235 235 236 Hardness 236 Drains 236 Embankment 236 Footpath 236 Side Channels 236 Wastes 236 Fences 236 Parish Roads 241 Surface 241 Convexity 241 Drains 241 Embankment 242 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ROADS , P. 243 ...
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... direction that general convenience and expedition could require . What is called Watling Street led from Richborough , in Kent , the ancient Rutupiæ , north - east , through London , to Chester . The Ermine Street passed from London to ...
... direction that general convenience and expedition could require . What is called Watling Street led from Richborough , in Kent , the ancient Rutupiæ , north - east , through London , to Chester . The Ermine Street passed from London to ...
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... direction . " * All the principal roads of France are under the management of Government . The department of the Ponts et Chaussées has the care of them . In the year 1836 , the sum of £ 896,000 was granted by the chambers for ...
... direction . " * All the principal roads of France are under the management of Government . The department of the Ponts et Chaussées has the care of them . In the year 1836 , the sum of £ 896,000 was granted by the chambers for ...
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... direction being across the road . The Swedes have long had the character of being excellent road engineers . Good rock is very generally met with in Sweden , and they spare no pains in breaking it small ; their roads are spacious and ...
... direction being across the road . The Swedes have long had the character of being excellent road engineers . Good rock is very generally met with in Sweden , and they spare no pains in breaking it small ; their roads are spacious and ...
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... direction of the turn- pike roads , they evidently have not been laid out according to any fixed principle ; they are , in fact , almost in every instance , precisely the identical lines , which formed the footpaths of the aboriginal ...
... direction of the turn- pike roads , they evidently have not been laid out according to any fixed principle ; they are , in fact , almost in every instance , precisely the identical lines , which formed the footpaths of the aboriginal ...
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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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