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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... Wheels 298 Axles 303 Tires of Wheels 306 Size of a Body of a Stage Coach 308 Springs - 310 Dimensions of the several parts of a Stage Coach 314 APPENDIX . APPENDIX , No. I. Description of Mr. Macneill's Road Indicator APPENDIX , No. II ...
... Wheels 298 Axles 303 Tires of Wheels 306 Size of a Body of a Stage Coach 308 Springs - 310 Dimensions of the several parts of a Stage Coach 314 APPENDIX . APPENDIX , No. I. Description of Mr. Macneill's Road Indicator APPENDIX , No. II ...
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... wheels , nor with above the 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 ...
... wheels , nor with above the 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 ...
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... wheel - carriages and pack- horses were extremely multiplied , the first turn- pike road was established by law ( the 16 Charles II . cap . 1. anno 1653 ) , for taking toll of all but foot passengers on the northern road through Hert ...
... wheel - carriages and pack- horses were extremely multiplied , the first turn- pike road was established by law ( the 16 Charles II . cap . 1. anno 1653 ) , for taking toll of all but foot passengers on the northern road through Hert ...
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... wheels by a map . I will go here , I will go there ; I could trace a route upon paper as wild as fancy could dictate ; and every where I found beautiful roads , without break or hinderance , to enable me to realise my design . * By 5 ...
... wheels by a map . I will go here , I will go there ; I could trace a route upon paper as wild as fancy could dictate ; and every where I found beautiful roads , without break or hinderance , to enable me to realise my design . * By 5 ...
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... wheel horses must be not only well trained to holding back , but very strong . If a pole breaks , or a pole - piece or a haime , haime strap , or drag chain , when a heavily - laden coach is descend- ing a steep hill , at a rate ...
... wheel horses must be not only well trained to holding back , but very strong . If a pole breaks , or a pole - piece or a haime , haime strap , or drag chain , when a heavily - laden coach is descend- ing a steep hill , at a rate ...
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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?