Modern Roads (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Modern RoadsIT is not proposed in this book to trace the history of road construction since the days of the Romans, this has been done by many writers and would serve no useful purpose.Recent History of Roads. - The real history of the modern road commences only about 20 years ago, although previous to this date many attempts had been made to improve on the specification for the construction of what are known as Water bound Macadam Roads, which had been in vogue since the days of that great road engineer, Thomas Telford. The author had himself in the early eighties successfully treated the surfaces of gravel footpaths with ordinary coal tar and laid some considerable lengths of tarred macadam carriage ways with varying success. In his book, The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook, published in 1883, he gave a description of this method of road construction, and in the 3rd edition, published in 1889, he gave a complete specification of tar macadam, the principles of which hold good to the present day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.