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 páginas |
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... Edition . BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HENRY PARNELL , BART . HONORARY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , LONDON . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , ORME , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS , PATERNOSTER - ROW . LONDON : Printed by A ...
... Edition . BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR HENRY PARNELL , BART . HONORARY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS , LONDON . LONDON : PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , ORME , BROWN , GREEN , AND LONGMANS , PATERNOSTER - ROW . LONDON : Printed by A ...
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... Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead Road Sir Henry Parnell. LONDON : Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE , New - Street - Square . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . SINCE the first edition.
... Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead Road Sir Henry Parnell. LONDON : Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE , New - Street - Square . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . SINCE the first edition.
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... EDITION . SINCE the first edition of this Treatise on Roads was published , a work has appeared , entitled " The Life of Thomas Telford , Esq . , written by himself , " which contains the following passages relative to this Treatise ...
... EDITION . SINCE the first edition of this Treatise on Roads was published , a work has appeared , entitled " The Life of Thomas Telford , Esq . , written by himself , " which contains the following passages relative to this Treatise ...
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... edition . The eagerness which was so generally displayed by vast numbers of persons to give credit to the representations of the great profits to be realized by railway shares , gave so much encouragement to all those adventurers , who ...
... edition . The eagerness which was so generally displayed by vast numbers of persons to give credit to the representations of the great profits to be realized by railway shares , gave so much encouragement to all those adventurers , who ...
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... Edition 1806 . " Large fore wheels are advantageous , both in horizontal and inclined planes . " It must naturally occur to every person re- flecting upon this subject , that the axletrees should be straight , and the wheels perfectly ...
... Edition 1806 . " Large fore wheels are advantageous , both in horizontal and inclined planes . " It must naturally occur to every person re- flecting upon this subject , that the axletrees should be straight , and the wheels perfectly ...
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Outras edições - Ver tudo
A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualização integral - 1837 |
A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualização integral - 1838 |
A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... Sir Henry Parnell Visualização integral - 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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Página 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?