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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... placed from mile to mile to mark the distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for foot travellers to rest upon , and to assist horsemen to mount their horses ; and also temples , triumphal arches , mausoleums , and military ...
... placed from mile to mile to mark the distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for foot travellers to rest upon , and to assist horsemen to mount their horses ; and also temples , triumphal arches , mausoleums , and military ...
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... placed on every four or 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 ...
... placed on every four or 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 ...
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... placed on the stability of the intended superstruc- ture but this most requisite precaution has but recently been attended to in the formation of roads , and only on those roads in Scotland , and between London and Holyhead , which have ...
... placed on the stability of the intended superstruc- ture but this most requisite precaution has but recently been attended to in the formation of roads , and only on those roads in Scotland , and between London and Holyhead , which have ...
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... placed , may be avoided by a judicious selection of the high and low ground which the surface of the country affords . The chief care , where a road must be carried over a high elevation , is to lay it out so that it shall not have any ...
... placed , may be avoided by a judicious selection of the high and low ground which the surface of the country affords . The chief care , where a road must be carried over a high elevation , is to lay it out so that it shall not have any ...
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... placed uppermost , and neatly jointed , and evenly laid , and to be at least four inches thick . " The surface of the bed for the materials of the carriage way is to be formed level from side to side , the breadth between the bottom of ...
... placed uppermost , and neatly jointed , and evenly laid , and to be at least four inches thick . " The surface of the bed for the materials of the carriage way is to be formed level from side to side , the breadth between the bottom of ...
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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?