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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... broken Stones - Road with a Foundation of Pavement , and a Surface of broken Stones Road made with a Foundation of Roman Ce- ment and Gravel , and a Surface of broken Stones Road with a Foundation of rubble Stones , and a Surface of broken ...
... broken Stones - Road with a Foundation of Pavement , and a Surface of broken Stones Road made with a Foundation of Roman Ce- ment and Gravel , and a Surface of broken Stones Road with a Foundation of rubble Stones , and a Surface of broken ...
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... broken stones ( de cailloux taillés en quarré ) , from Spain through Gaul to the Alps . Domitius Enoberbus paved the Via Domitia , which led to Savoy , Dauphiny and Provence . The Romans made in Germania another Via Domitia . 66 ...
... broken stones ( de cailloux taillés en quarré ) , from Spain through Gaul to the Alps . Domitius Enoberbus paved the Via Domitia , which led to Savoy , Dauphiny and Provence . The Romans made in Germania another Via Domitia . 66 ...
Pàgina 27
... stones broken very small . This practice had long existed in Scotland , and is recommended by the old writers INTRODUCTION . 27.
... stones broken very small . This practice had long existed in Scotland , and is recommended by the old writers INTRODUCTION . 27.
Pàgina 46
... broken - stone road surface , constructed in the best manner , so as to be as hard as can be , and a good class of carriage rolling upon it , I suppose , at a rough estimate , one in forty would be the angle of repose . I should advise ...
... broken - stone road surface , constructed in the best manner , so as to be as hard as can be , and a good class of carriage rolling upon it , I suppose , at a rough estimate , one in forty would be the angle of repose . I should advise ...
Pàgina 65
... stones , set as a rough pavement , with a coating of at least six inches of broken stone of the hardest kind laid upon it ; and further , that in all cases where the subsoil is elastic , it is necessary , before the foun- dation is laid ...
... stones , set as a rough pavement , with a coating of at least six inches of broken stone of the hardest kind laid upon it ; and further , that in all cases where the subsoil is elastic , it is necessary , before the foun- dation is laid ...
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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?