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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... , BART . HONORARY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , LONDON . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , ORME , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS , PATERNOSTER - ROW . LONDON : Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE , New - Street 1838 .
... , BART . HONORARY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , LONDON . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , ORME , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS , PATERNOSTER - ROW . LONDON : Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE , New - Street 1838 .
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... engineer , and at his death he left to this school his manuscripts and library . This school is under the minister of the Home Depart- ment ; the scholars are fifty in number ; these are selected from the Polytechnic School , and ...
... engineer , and at his death he left to this school his manuscripts and library . This school is under the minister of the Home Depart- ment ; the scholars are fifty in number ; these are selected from the Polytechnic School , and ...
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... engineers . Good rock is very generally met with in Sweden , and they spare no pains in breaking it small ; their roads are spacious and smooth . Where the country has been opened in Russia the roads are formed on scientific principles ...
... engineers . Good rock is very generally met with in Sweden , and they spare no pains in breaking it small ; their roads are spacious and smooth . Where the country has been opened in Russia the roads are formed on scientific principles ...
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... engineers , which is not extremely defective in its most essential qualities . * With regard to the lines of direction of the turn- pike roads , they evidently have not been laid out according to any fixed principle ; they are , in fact ...
... engineers , which is not extremely defective in its most essential qualities . * With regard to the lines of direction of the turn- pike roads , they evidently have not been laid out according to any fixed principle ; they are , in fact ...
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... engineering which are applicable to the construction of roads . The various publications on this subject are none of them the works of civil engineers . The tracing of new lines , cutting through hills , and forming embankments , making ...
... engineering which are applicable to the construction of roads . The various publications on this subject are none of them the works of civil engineers . The tracing of new lines , cutting through hills , and forming embankments , making ...
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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?