50974
Accession Number
27552
Title Of Article Chaper
Improvement of the Surface, the Quality if the Stone, Macadam Roads, Asphaltum
Title Of Journal Book
A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-Making Comprising the Location, Construction, and Improvement of Roads (Common, Macadam, Paved, Plank, etc.) and Rail-Roads
Pages
196-197, 203, 256
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Publisher
A.S. Barnes & Co.
Publisher City
New York
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
A discussion of the selection of stone for road-making in New York, with mention of making artificial stone by burning clay. A comparison of the use of clean broken stone with use of mixtures containing cavity-filling sand, etc. The method of using asphaltum from Valdetrauers, Switzerland for sidewalks in Paris.
Keywords
stone;road
pub_id
50974