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 sider |
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Side x
... Labour Repair Contracts 244 246 247 247 248 - 251 CHAP . XI . ROAD INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS , P. 253 . Theodolites Spirit Levels Sextants - Spades - Shovels Trucks - Hammers 253 255 257 257 258 Scrapers - 259 Hedging Knives - Working ...
... Labour Repair Contracts 244 246 247 247 248 - 251 CHAP . XI . ROAD INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS , P. 253 . Theodolites Spirit Levels Sextants - Spades - Shovels Trucks - Hammers 253 255 257 257 258 Scrapers - 259 Hedging Knives - Working ...
Side 2
... labour or expense should be spared in providing them . Roads , canals , and navigable rivers , may be justly considered as the veins and arteries through which all improvements flow . How many places in almost every country might be ...
... labour or expense should be spared in providing them . Roads , canals , and navigable rivers , may be justly considered as the veins and arteries through which all improvements flow . How many places in almost every country might be ...
Side 3
... labour , a cheaper description of horse may be employed , less food will be consumed , and fewer servants wanted . The expense of travelling , and the charges for the carriage of goods , will be lower . A saving to the public ...
... labour , a cheaper description of horse may be employed , less food will be consumed , and fewer servants wanted . The expense of travelling , and the charges for the carriage of goods , will be lower . A saving to the public ...
Side 7
... labour or art , whether they consisted of marshes , lakes , rivers , or mountains . In flat districts , the middle part of the road was raised into a terrace . " In mountainous districts , the roads were alter- nately cut through ...
... labour or art , whether they consisted of marshes , lakes , rivers , or mountains . In flat districts , the middle part of the road was raised into a terrace . " In mountainous districts , the roads were alter- nately cut through ...
Side 28
... labour in 1763 , and the placing of the business of making roads under the grand juries , immediately led to a great improvement ; for , notwithstanding the abuses which have attended the exercise of the powers of grand juries in money ...
... labour in 1763 , and the placing of the business of making roads under the grand juries , immediately led to a great improvement ; for , notwithstanding the abuses which have attended the exercise of the powers of grand juries in money ...
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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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Side 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?