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 pàgines |
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... appear that this display of management produced any consider- able effect in Greece . It was reserved for a com- mercial people to observe the benefits of facility of travelling and transporting goods ; hence it is that the invention of ...
... appear that this display of management produced any consider- able effect in Greece . It was reserved for a com- mercial people to observe the benefits of facility of travelling and transporting goods ; hence it is that the invention of ...
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... appear from the following table + : - ‡ : - In eight years , from 1785 to 1792 1792 to 1800 1800 to 1809 302 341 419 In every year since 1809 turnpike roads have been progressively established , till they have ex- tended to nearly ...
... appear from the following table + : - ‡ : - In eight years , from 1785 to 1792 1792 to 1800 1800 to 1809 302 341 419 In every year since 1809 turnpike roads have been progressively established , till they have ex- tended to nearly ...
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... appear that any system for forming them on scientific prin- ciples has been suggested by them . On the con- trary , the approbation expressed in their reports of the doctrines of a modern publication as comprising a perfect system of ...
... appear that any system for forming them on scientific prin- ciples has been suggested by them . On the con- trary , the approbation expressed in their reports of the doctrines of a modern publication as comprising a perfect system of ...
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... appear favourable . It is only by such means that the best line can be determined . These surveys should be neatly and accurately protracted and laid down on good paper , on a scale of sixty - six yards to an inch for the ground plan ...
... appear favourable . It is only by such means that the best line can be determined . These surveys should be neatly and accurately protracted and laid down on good paper , on a scale of sixty - six yards to an inch for the ground plan ...
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... appears , from a perambulation and inspection of the country , to be advisable to leave the straight line altogether from the beginning , in order to cross the ridges , at lower levels , by a circuitous course , in the way represented ...
... appears , from a perambulation and inspection of the country , to be advisable to leave the straight line altogether from the beginning , in order to cross the ridges , at lower levels , by a circuitous course , in the way represented ...
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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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Pàgina 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?