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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... distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for foot travellers to rest upon , and to assist horsemen to mount their horses ; and also temples , triumphal arches , mausoleums , and military stations . " Such was the solid ...
... distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for foot travellers to rest upon , and to assist horsemen to mount their horses ; and also temples , triumphal arches , mausoleums , and military stations . " Such was the solid ...
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... distance of thirty leagues ; the rest were scarcely practicable , and kept in a most detestable state . The foregoing description of foreign roads is taken from Mr. Stevenson's article on roads in the Edinburgh Encyclo- pædia . There ...
... distance of thirty leagues ; the rest were scarcely practicable , and kept in a most detestable state . The foregoing description of foreign roads is taken from Mr. Stevenson's article on roads in the Edinburgh Encyclo- pædia . There ...
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... distances were not very great , were carried , not by carts or waggons , but on horseback . Oatmeal , coals , turf , and even straw and hay , were conveyed in this way . At this period , and for long previous , there were a set of ...
... distances were not very great , were carried , not by carts or waggons , but on horseback . Oatmeal , coals , turf , and even straw and hay , were conveyed in this way . At this period , and for long previous , there were a set of ...
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... distance of forty - one miles , which was to be drawn by six horses , and to per- form the journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow and back again in six days . Even so late as the middle of the last century , it took a day and a half for the ...
... distance of forty - one miles , which was to be drawn by six horses , and to per- form the journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow and back again in six days . Even so late as the middle of the last century , it took a day and a half for the ...
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... distance from Shrewsbury to Bangor Ferry , being 85 miles , was divided into three districts ; the first , being 23 miles , extending from Shrewsbury to the boundary between Shropshire and Wales , at Chirk Bridge ; the second , of 30 ...
... distance from Shrewsbury to Bangor Ferry , being 85 miles , was divided into three districts ; the first , being 23 miles , extending from Shrewsbury to the boundary between Shropshire and Wales , at Chirk Bridge ; the second , of 30 ...
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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?