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
... Surface of broken Stones Road with a Foundation of rubble Stones , and a Surface of broken Stones Road made wholly of broken Stones Road made with Gravel Quick Fences Posts and Rails Fences in Cuttings CHAP . VI . - 156 167 168 170 ...
... Surface of broken Stones Road with a Foundation of rubble Stones , and a Surface of broken Stones Road made wholly of broken Stones Road made with Gravel Quick Fences Posts and Rails Fences in Cuttings CHAP . VI . - 156 167 168 170 ...
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... surface , when accurately ascertained by taking the levels of it , is rarely to be found of a regular convexity . The surface of all the roads , until within a few years , was every where cut into deep ruts , and even now , since more ...
... surface , when accurately ascertained by taking the levels of it , is rarely to be found of a regular convexity . The surface of all the roads , until within a few years , was every where cut into deep ruts , and even now , since more ...
Pàgina 24
... 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 of Commons have ...
... 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 of Commons have ...
Pàgina 26
... surface shall have an uniform convexity , and that the side boun- daries shall be on the same level ; and so con- structing the surface as to reduce the intensity of the tractive power as much as possible , have all been wholly ...
... surface shall have an uniform convexity , and that the side boun- daries shall be on the same level ; and so con- structing the surface as to reduce the intensity of the tractive power as much as possible , have all been wholly ...
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... surface of the road ; but if we take the very best class of broken - stone road surface , constructed in the best manner , so as to be as hard as can be , and a good class of carriage rolling upon it , I suppose , at a rough estimate ...
... surface of the road ; but if we take the very best class of broken - stone road surface , constructed in the best manner , so as to be as hard as can be , and a good class of carriage rolling upon it , I suppose , at a rough estimate ...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualització completa - 1837 |
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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?