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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... constructed ; and , 3dly , the mule roads or paths , worn by the feet of the mules travelling over the mountains during a long series of years . The revenue applicable to the construction and repair of the roads is derived , 1st , from ...
... constructed ; and , 3dly , the mule roads or paths , worn by the feet of the mules travelling over the mountains during a long series of years . The revenue applicable to the construction and repair of the roads is derived , 1st , from ...
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... constructed in the most substantial manner . A foundation of rough pavement has been made as a bed to support the surface materials . They are uniform in breadth and superficial convexity . They are completely drained , and when carried ...
... constructed in the most substantial manner . A foundation of rough pavement has been made as a bed to support the surface materials . They are uniform in breadth and superficial convexity . They are completely drained , and when carried ...
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... constructed roads . " The value of these improvements was felt and appreciated ; and it became of the highest importance to preserve them in a perfect state , by providing an efficient system of management . containing an illustration ...
... constructed roads . " The value of these improvements was felt and appreciated ; and it became of the highest importance to preserve them in a perfect state , by providing an efficient system of management . containing an illustration ...
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... the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock , gathering field stones , getting gravel , breaking stones , scraping the road , which have been made use of in constructing the new * D INTRODUCTION .
... the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock , gathering field stones , getting gravel , breaking stones , scraping the road , which have been made use of in constructing the new * D INTRODUCTION .
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... constructing the new road in North Wales , through a country per- senting every kind of difficulty , has suggested the present publication . The object of it is to point out , in a clear and concise manner , the best method of tracing ...
... constructing the new road in North Wales , through a country per- senting every kind of difficulty , has suggested the present publication . The object of it is to point out , in a clear and concise manner , the best method of tracing ...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualització completa - 1837 |
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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?