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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... feet wide , with two side ways , each eight feet wide , separated from the middle way by two raised paths of two feet each . ” * The funds for making roads were so well secured and so considerable , that the Romans were not * See ...
... feet wide , with two side ways , each eight feet wide , separated from the middle way by two raised paths of two feet each . ” * The funds for making roads were so well secured and so considerable , that the Romans were not * See ...
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... feet wide at top , four feet deep , and eighteen inches wide at bottom ; the peat dug out of these drains is to be spread over the surface of the roadway in form of a ridge , taking care to previously cover all the very soft and swampy ...
... feet wide at top , four feet deep , and eighteen inches wide at bottom ; the peat dug out of these drains is to be spread over the surface of the roadway in form of a ridge , taking care to previously cover all the very soft and swampy ...
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... feet deep below the level of the bed of the road ; they should be one foot wide at bottom , and five feet wide at top . In crossing marshy land they should be made sufficiently deep and wide to obtain earth to raise the bed of the road ...
... feet deep below the level of the bed of the road ; they should be one foot wide at bottom , and five feet wide at top . In crossing marshy land they should be made sufficiently deep and wide to obtain earth to raise the bed of the road ...
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... wide , and twelve inches deep , laid for the wheels to run upon , as on a tramroad of iron , except that there is no ... feet , of which 250 feet nearest the Dock - gate rise 1 foot , or 1 in 250 , and the other 300 feet rise about 2 ...
... wide , and twelve inches deep , laid for the wheels to run upon , as on a tramroad of iron , except that there is no ... feet , of which 250 feet nearest the Dock - gate rise 1 foot , or 1 in 250 , and the other 300 feet rise about 2 ...
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... wide , and nine inches long , is to be placed on each side of the trams or ... feet under the surface of the road - way where the trams are to be used ... wide , set in proper frames . " -See Appendix , No. III . on Tramways . well - made ...
... wide , and nine inches long , is to be placed on each side of the trams or ... feet under the surface of the road - way where the trams are to be used ... wide , set in proper frames . " -See Appendix , No. III . on Tramways . well - made ...
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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?