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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... weight of twenty hundred , nor shall draw any waine , cart , or carriage , with more than five horses at once . " + The first attempt to put the roads of England into order occurred when the turnpike system was introduced . The ancient ...
... weight of twenty hundred , nor shall draw any waine , cart , or carriage , with more than five horses at once . " + The first attempt to put the roads of England into order occurred when the turnpike system was introduced . The ancient ...
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... weight in favour of departing from this general rule . On any rate of inclination greater than 1 in 35 , the labour of horses , in ascending hills , is very much increased . The experiments detailed in Mr. Telford's Seventh Report of ...
... weight in favour of departing from this general rule . On any rate of inclination greater than 1 in 35 , the labour of horses , in ascending hills , is very much increased . The experiments detailed in Mr. Telford's Seventh Report of ...
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... weight the moist and porous subsoil . Such an embankment , of 1,740 yards in length , having this object in view , was made over Mal- dreath Marsh , in the Island of Anglesea , on the new line of the Holyhead Road . MATERIALS . It will ...
... weight the moist and porous subsoil . Such an embankment , of 1,740 yards in length , having this object in view , was made over Mal- dreath Marsh , in the Island of Anglesea , on the new line of the Holyhead Road . MATERIALS . It will ...
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... weight and pressure of heavy car- riages . The hardest limestones wear away very quickly when wet , and all stones of an aluminous character , and also gravel that consists of flint , sandstone , or other weak pebbles . The great ...
... weight and pressure of heavy car- riages . The hardest limestones wear away very quickly when wet , and all stones of an aluminous character , and also gravel that consists of flint , sandstone , or other weak pebbles . The great ...
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... in order to avoid crossing parks , or demesnes , and , to a certain extent , no doubt it should ; but this mo- tive ought not to be allowed to have much weight , where the consequence is to force the road over an 54 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... in order to avoid crossing parks , or demesnes , and , to a certain extent , no doubt it should ; but this mo- tive ought not to be allowed to have much weight , where the consequence is to force the road over an 54 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
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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?