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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Pàgina iv
... expense ; 2d , to procure the consent of all the numerous , and in some instances turbulent , bodies of local trustees , upon an extensive line of road ; and , 3d , to arrange the sea communication be- tween Holyhead and Dublin ; for ...
... expense ; 2d , to procure the consent of all the numerous , and in some instances turbulent , bodies of local trustees , upon an extensive line of road ; and , 3d , to arrange the sea communication be- tween Holyhead and Dublin ; for ...
Pàgina 2
... expense should be spared in providing them . Roads , canals , and navigable rivers , may be justly considered as the veins and arteries through which all improvements flow . How many places in almost every country might be rendered ...
... expense should be spared in providing them . Roads , canals , and navigable rivers , may be justly considered as the veins and arteries through which all improvements flow . How many places in almost every country might be rendered ...
Pàgina 3
... expense of carriage , put the remote parts of a country nearly on a level with those in the neighbourhood of a town ; they are , upon that account , the greatest of all improvements . " To establish perfect roads throughout a country is ...
... expense of carriage , put the remote parts of a country nearly on a level with those in the neighbourhood of a town ; they are , upon that account , the greatest of all improvements . " To establish perfect roads throughout a country is ...
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... expense of the government , and a few defrayed by the local authorities . In the towns and villages through which these roads pass , the pavement is generally in a very bad state ; the expense being paid by the municipal authorities ...
... expense of the government , and a few defrayed by the local authorities . In the towns and villages through which these roads pass , the pavement is generally in a very bad state ; the expense being paid by the municipal authorities ...
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... expense . The business of road - making in this country has been confined almost entirely to the management of individuals wholly ignorant of the scientific prin- ciples on which it depends . It has received , till very lately , little ...
... expense . The business of road - making in this country has been confined almost entirely to the management of individuals wholly ignorant of the scientific prin- ciples on which it depends . It has received , till very lately , little ...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualització completa - 1837 |
A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualització completa - 1838 |
A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualització completa - 1833 |
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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
Passatges populars
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?