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 vii
... 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 Stones Road made wholly ...
... 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 Stones Road made wholly ...
Pàgina 15
... foundation for their roads ; which are then built with their bricks , called clinkers , laid in lime ; their longest direction being across the road . The Swedes have long had the character of being excellent road engineers . Good rock ...
... foundation for their roads ; which are then built with their bricks , called clinkers , laid in lime ; their longest direction being across the road . The Swedes have long had the character of being excellent road engineers . Good rock ...
Pàgina 24
... foundation for the surface materials , and of giving the surface a regular convexity , have not , till within a short time , been recognized or explained by any scientific rules whatever . Although various select committees of the House ...
... foundation for the surface materials , and of giving the surface a regular convexity , have not , till within a short time , been recognized or explained by any scientific rules whatever . Although various select committees of the House ...
Pàgina 31
... 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 along the face of precipices , protected by ...
... 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 along the face of precipices , protected by ...
Pàgina 32
... foundation was prepared ; a very superficial coating of very bad stones or gravel was all that covered the soil ; the transverse sections were often just the reverse of what they ought to be ; the draining was mi- serably defective ...
... foundation was prepared ; a very superficial coating of very bad stones or gravel was all that covered the soil ; the transverse sections were often just the reverse of what they ought to be ; the draining was mi- serably defective ...
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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
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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?