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 v
... Collision - Friction Hardness Machine for measuring the Power of Traction Traction on different Kinds of Roads · Elasticity Erroneous Rules - 35 37 50 51 52 64 66 67 69 73 74 76 78 CHAP . III . FORMING A ROAD , P. 82 A 3.
... Collision - Friction Hardness Machine for measuring the Power of Traction Traction on different Kinds of Roads · Elasticity Erroneous Rules - 35 37 50 51 52 64 66 67 69 73 74 76 78 CHAP . III . FORMING A ROAD , P. 82 A 3.
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... FORMING A ROAD , P. 82 . Page Deep Cuttings 83 Slopes 83 Wet Land - 83 Retaining Walls 84 Precipices 84 Bed of a Road 84 Embankments 85 Slopes at which different Strata will stand 86 London Clay 87 Sandstone Clay and Marl Oxford Clay ...
... FORMING A ROAD , P. 82 . Page Deep Cuttings 83 Slopes 83 Wet Land - 83 Retaining Walls 84 Precipices 84 Bed of a Road 84 Embankments 85 Slopes at which different Strata will stand 86 London Clay 87 Sandstone Clay and Marl Oxford Clay ...
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... formed roads ; and , therefore , however valuable the efforts of the statesmen of France may have been in bringing the business of road - making to the point at which it has arrived , there is still wanting some new plan of legislation ...
... formed roads ; and , therefore , however valuable the efforts of the statesmen of France may have been in bringing the business of road - making to the point at which it has arrived , there is still wanting some new plan of legislation ...
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... formed , being almost without any pre- pared surface . The roads in Holland are gene- rally carried in undeviating straight lines along that low and flat country , between a double row of trees , with a ditch on each side . The Dutch ...
... formed , being almost without any pre- pared surface . The roads in Holland are gene- rally carried in undeviating straight lines along that low and flat country , between a double row of trees , with a ditch on each side . The Dutch ...
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... formed , and in sum- mer not unfrequently consisted of the bottoms of rivulets . Down to the middle of the last century most of the goods conveyed from place to place in Scotland , at least where the distances were not very great , were ...
... formed , and in sum- mer not unfrequently consisted of the bottoms of rivulets . Down to the middle of the last century most of the goods conveyed from place to place in Scotland , at least where the distances were not very great , were ...
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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?