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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... mile to mile to mark the distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for foot travellers to rest upon , and to ... miles . The public roads were accurately divided by milestones , * See Bergier , Histoire des grands Chemins de l ...
... mile to mile to mark the distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for foot travellers to rest upon , and to ... miles . The public roads were accurately divided by milestones , * See Bergier , Histoire des grands Chemins de l ...
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... miles an hour . In other districts , where 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 ...
... miles an hour . In other districts , where 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 ...
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... miles . * The following remark on the roads of Spain is taken from the Edinburgh Review for July , 1832 : " Another check upon agriculture is , that with the exception of some few high roads , which are sufficiently insecure , there ...
... miles . * The following remark on the roads of Spain is taken from the Edinburgh Review for July , 1832 : " Another check upon agriculture is , that with the exception of some few high roads , which are sufficiently insecure , there ...
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... miles distant , required a fortnight for his journey between the two places , going and returning ! The road was originally among the most perilous in the whole country : a considerable extent of it lay in the bottom of that district ...
... miles distant , required a fortnight for his journey between the two places , going and returning ! The road was originally among the most perilous in the whole country : a considerable extent of it lay in the bottom of that district ...
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... miles , which was to be 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 ...
... miles , which was to be 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 ...
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
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?