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
... Materials - Exposure - Evaporation CHAP . II . PRINCIPLES OF ROAD - MAKING , Strength of Roads P. 56 . Application of the Principles of Moving Bodies Collision - Friction Hardness Machine for measuring the Power of Traction Traction on ...
... Materials - Exposure - Evaporation CHAP . II . PRINCIPLES OF ROAD - MAKING , Strength of Roads P. 56 . Application of the Principles of Moving Bodies Collision - Friction Hardness Machine for measuring the Power of Traction Traction on ...
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... Materials Basalt - Granite - Quartz - Syenite - Porphyry - -Whinstone - Guernsey Granite - Mount- sorrel Stone - Hartshill Stone 243 244 Shropshire , Staffordshire , and Warwickshire ... Materials Preparation of Materials CONTENTS . ix.
... Materials Basalt - Granite - Quartz - Syenite - Porphyry - -Whinstone - Guernsey Granite - Mount- sorrel Stone - Hartshill Stone 243 244 Shropshire , Staffordshire , and Warwickshire ... Materials Preparation of Materials CONTENTS . ix.
Pàgina x
... Materials Preparation of Materials Method of putting them on the Road Management of Labour Repair Contracts 244 246 247 247 248 - 251 CHAP . XI . ROAD INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS , P. 253 . Theodolites Spirit Levels Sextants - Spades ...
... Materials Preparation of Materials Method of putting them on the Road Management of Labour Repair Contracts 244 246 247 247 248 - 251 CHAP . XI . ROAD INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS , P. 253 . Theodolites Spirit Levels Sextants - Spades ...
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... materials are harder , a road is seldom to be seen with a smooth surface and of sufficient strength . Very extensive tracts of the kingdom are wholly without regularly formed roads ; and , therefore , however valuable the efforts of the ...
... materials are harder , a road is seldom to be seen with a smooth surface and of sufficient strength . Very extensive tracts of the kingdom are wholly without regularly formed roads ; and , therefore , however valuable the efforts of the ...
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... materials which forms it is universally so thin , that it is weak , and consequently exceedingly im- perfect . Drainage is neglected ; high hedges and trees are allowed to intercept the action of the sun C 4 INTRODUCTION . 23.
... materials which forms it is universally so thin , that it is weak , and consequently exceedingly im- perfect . Drainage is neglected ; high hedges and trees are allowed to intercept the action of the sun C 4 INTRODUCTION . 23.
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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?