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 síður |
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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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Síða 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?