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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... drawn out to a length of 4080 Roman miles , or 3740 English miles . The public roads were accurately divided by milestones , * See Bergier , Histoire des grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain , liv . ii . cap . 1. p . 28 . and ran in a ...
... drawn out to a length of 4080 Roman miles , or 3740 English miles . The public roads were accurately divided by milestones , * See Bergier , Histoire des grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain , liv . ii . cap . 1. p . 28 . and ran in a ...
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... draw any waine , cart , or carriage , with more than five horses at once . " + The first attempt to put the roads of England into order occurred when the turnpike system was introduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads , until ...
... draw any waine , cart , or carriage , with more than five horses at once . " + The first attempt to put the roads of England into order occurred when the turnpike system was introduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads , until ...
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... 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 stage coach to travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow ...
... 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 stage coach to travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow ...
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... draw a carriage over very steep hills , there are other circumstances which make it desirable to avoid them . In descending them , the drag becomes indispen- sably necessary . In coach travelling , the stopping to put it on and take it ...
... draw a carriage over very steep hills , there are other circumstances which make it desirable to avoid them . In descending them , the drag becomes indispen- sably necessary . In coach travelling , the stopping to put it on and take it ...
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... drawing over it than in ascending a greater inclination , should be allowed to have any weight in favour of departing from this general rule . On any rate of inclination greater than 1 in 35 , the labour of horses , in ascending hills ...
... drawing over it than in ascending a greater inclination , should be allowed to have any weight in favour of departing from this general rule . On any rate of inclination greater than 1 in 35 , the labour of horses , in ascending hills ...
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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?