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 pages |
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... - ment ; the scholars are fifty in number ; these are selected from the Polytechnic School , and receive an allowance of seventy - five francs a month . " The roads of France were divided at this time INTRODUCTION . 11.
... - ment ; the scholars are fifty in number ; these are selected from the Polytechnic School , and receive an allowance of seventy - five francs a month . " The roads of France were divided at this time INTRODUCTION . 11.
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... five horses at once . " + The first attempt to put the roads of England into order occurred when the turnpike system was introduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was by ...
... five horses at once . " + The first attempt to put the roads of England into order occurred when the turnpike system was introduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was by ...
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... five hours . " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only once a month , taking from twelve to fourteen days to perform this journey ! At present , notwith- standing the immense ...
... five hours . " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only once a month , taking from twelve to fourteen days to perform this journey ! At present , notwith- standing the immense ...
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... five years , one of the worst roads in the kingdom . Through North Wales , in particular , no attention whatever had been paid to the essential points of a good road ; it was narrow and crooked , hills had been passed over , and valleys ...
... five years , one of the worst roads in the kingdom . Through North Wales , in particular , no attention whatever had been paid to the essential points of a good road ; it was narrow and crooked , hills had been passed over , and valleys ...
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... five miles , with such a number of labourers under his charge as were sufficient for maintaining the road in proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock ...
... five miles , with such a number of labourers under his charge as were sufficient for maintaining the road in proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock ...
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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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Page 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?