Street Pavements and Paving Materials: A Manual of City Pavements : the Methods and Materials of Their ConstructionJohn Wiley & Sons, 1900 - 532 páginas |
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... Side - bearing rail with renewable head .. 432 25. Grooved rail with renewable head ...... 433 26. Centre - bearing girder rail ...... 433 27. Side - bearing rail .. 434 28. The Trilby rail ... 435 29. Modified form of Trilby rail . 30 ...
... Side - bearing rail with renewable head .. 432 25. Grooved rail with renewable head ...... 433 26. Centre - bearing girder rail ...... 433 27. Side - bearing rail .. 434 28. The Trilby rail ... 435 29. Modified form of Trilby rail . 30 ...
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... sides with temples , mau- soleums , porticoes , monuments , statues , etc. In fact , according to descriptions it must have been the modern boulevard with all the accessories that the times and unlimited wealth would allow . The ...
... sides with temples , mau- soleums , porticoes , monuments , statues , etc. In fact , according to descriptions it must have been the modern boulevard with all the accessories that the times and unlimited wealth would allow . The ...
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... side very near the houses . It is fine sport for the cabriolets or hack - drivers to run a wheel in one of these gutters , always full of filth , and bespatter fifty pedestrians who are braced against the wall . " A sample of asphalt ...
... side very near the houses . It is fine sport for the cabriolets or hack - drivers to run a wheel in one of these gutters , always full of filth , and bespatter fifty pedestrians who are braced against the wall . " A sample of asphalt ...
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... side- walks . A Swedish traveller , writing of New York in 1751 , says : " The streets do not run so straight as those of Philadelphia and have sometimes considerable bendings ; however they are very spacious and well built , and most ...
... side- walks . A Swedish traveller , writing of New York in 1751 , says : " The streets do not run so straight as those of Philadelphia and have sometimes considerable bendings ; however they are very spacious and well built , and most ...
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... side , the middle . being occupied with public edifices . Active paving work was not begun till about 1791 , when Broadway was paved and complaint was made about the quantity of stones required , as " it swallowed up thousands of ...
... side , the middle . being occupied with public edifices . Active paving work was not begun till about 1791 , when Broadway was paved and complaint was made about the quantity of stones required , as " it swallowed up thousands of ...
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