Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements, the Methods and Materials of Their ConstructionJ. Wiley & Sons, 1901 - 555 páginas |
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... present time , except as records of what has been done . An active participation in the construction of municipal pub- lic works , particularly in pavements , during the past twenty years has seemed to justify the author in producing ...
... present time , except as records of what has been done . An active participation in the construction of municipal pub- lic works , particularly in pavements , during the past twenty years has seemed to justify the author in producing ...
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... present - shaped granite blocks were first used in 1876 or 1877 , though the Guidet patent blocks had been used a few years previously . This latter had also been adopted to some extent in Brooklyn , but never came into very general use ...
... present - shaped granite blocks were first used in 1876 or 1877 , though the Guidet patent blocks had been used a few years previously . This latter had also been adopted to some extent in Brooklyn , but never came into very general use ...
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... present pavement was in the size of the blocks , they being very large . Some of them measured on Atlantic Avenue , Brooklyn , in 1899 were 5 and 6 inches wide and 18 and 20 inches long . The Dock Department used tar and gravel joints ...
... present pavement was in the size of the blocks , they being very large . Some of them measured on Atlantic Avenue , Brooklyn , in 1899 were 5 and 6 inches wide and 18 and 20 inches long . The Dock Department used tar and gravel joints ...
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... present cobblestones , which in 1899 composed about 75 per cent of its entire pavement . Philadelphia . In 1726 a Friend relates that he saw paved streets near the court - house and Market House Square . Second Street from High to ...
... present cobblestones , which in 1899 composed about 75 per cent of its entire pavement . Philadelphia . In 1726 a Friend relates that he saw paved streets near the court - house and Market House Square . Second Street from High to ...
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... present , the rock is generally light - colored , while the black biotite imparts its color to the stone , often giving it a speckled appearance . Mus- covite is a silicate of potash and alumina , and biotite of alumina , iron , and ...
... present , the rock is generally light - colored , while the black biotite imparts its color to the stone , often giving it a speckled appearance . Mus- covite is a silicate of potash and alumina , and biotite of alumina , iron , and ...
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Página 402 - All loss or damage arising out of the nature of the work to be done under this agreement, or from any unforeseen obstructions or difficulties which may be encountered in the prosecution of the same...
Página 412 - ... authorities, and •whenever required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe. In the case of neglect of any corpo-ration to make these pavements or repairs after the expiration of thirty days' notice to do so, the local authorities may make same at the expense of such corporation." The street-car companies, however, have not always lived up to this requirement, and it was stated in a paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers in December, 1896, that bills aggregating...
Página 412 - Every street surface railroad corporation so long as it shall continue to use any of its tracks in any street, avenue or public place in any city or village shall have and keep in permanent repair that portion of such street, avenue or public place between its tracks, the rails of its tracks, and two feet in width outside of its tracks, under the supervision of the proper local authorities, and whenever required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe. In case of the neglect of...