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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... length , and the difficulty of the country through which they passed . One traversed the mountains of Auvergne , and penetrated to the bottom of Aquitaine . Another was extended to the Rhine at the mouth of the Meuse , and followed the ...
... length , and the difficulty of the country through which they passed . One traversed the mountains of Auvergne , and penetrated to the bottom of Aquitaine . Another was extended to the Rhine at the mouth of the Meuse , and followed the ...
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... length of 4080 Roman miles , or 3740 English miles . The public roads were accurately divided by milestones , * See Bergier , Histoire des grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain , liv . ii . cap . 1. p . 28 . and ran in a direct line from ...
... length of 4080 Roman miles , or 3740 English miles . The public roads were accurately divided by milestones , * See Bergier , Histoire des grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain , liv . ii . cap . 1. p . 28 . and ran in a direct line from ...
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... length the attention of the public and of government will be roused , and seriously and effectually engaged in bringing about a proper remedy . These defects are , in point of fact , so numerous ' and so glaring , that it is quite ...
... length the attention of the public and of government will be roused , and seriously and effectually engaged in bringing about a proper remedy . These defects are , in point of fact , so numerous ' and so glaring , that it is quite ...
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... length attracted the attention of Parliament . I was directed to make a survey of it in 1810 ; and , it having been satisfactorily shown to the successive Committees of the House of Commons , that the country through which the road ...
... length attracted the attention of Parliament . I was directed to make a survey of it in 1810 ; and , it having been satisfactorily shown to the successive Committees of the House of Commons , that the country through which the road ...
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... length by which a road will be increased by going round to avoid passing the ridges in the direct line . The saving of perpendicular height to be passed over by a road , though a matter of so much importance and practical utility , has ...
... length by which a road will be increased by going round to avoid passing the ridges in the direct line . The saving of perpendicular height to be passed over by a road , though a matter of so much importance and practical utility , has ...
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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?