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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... foot travellers to rest upon , and to assist horsemen to mount their horses ; and also temples , triumphal arches , mausoleums , and military stations . " Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways , that their firmness has ...
... foot travellers to rest upon , and to assist horsemen to mount their horses ; and also temples , triumphal arches , mausoleums , and military stations . " Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways , that their firmness has ...
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... foot passengers on the northern road through Hert- fordshire , Cambridgeshire , and Huntingdonshire ; which road was then become very bad , by means of the great loads of barley and malt , & c . brought weekly to Ware in waggons and ...
... foot passengers on the northern road through Hert- fordshire , Cambridgeshire , and Huntingdonshire ; which road was then become very bad , by means of the great loads of barley and malt , & c . brought weekly to Ware in waggons and ...
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... foot unless abso- lutely unavoidable ; and this he accomplished by taking advantage of the valleys of the country , and skilfully cutting through high banks and filling hollows . Mr. Abercromby made all his roads with stones broken very ...
... foot unless abso- lutely unavoidable ; and this he accomplished by taking advantage of the valleys of the country , and skilfully cutting through high banks and filling hollows . Mr. Abercromby made all his roads with stones broken very ...
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... foot of it ; and , even supposing he has a model of it before him , it becomes an ex- tremely delicate and difficult problem to say what will be the best course to take for a line of road joining two points ; he of course must encounter ...
... foot of it ; and , even supposing he has a model of it before him , it becomes an ex- tremely delicate and difficult problem to say what will be the best course to take for a line of road joining two points ; he of course must encounter ...
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... foot or nine inches long , and six or eight inches wide ; it is lessened very much indeed on the sur- face that bears on the earth . " broken stones of great hardness , they should still be PRINCIPLES OF ROAD - MAKING . 75.
... foot or nine inches long , and six or eight inches wide ; it is lessened very much indeed on the sur- face that bears on the earth . " broken stones of great hardness , they should still be PRINCIPLES OF ROAD - MAKING . 75.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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?