Author: Tammy Ingram
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469612984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: North Carolina State Highway Commission. Advance Planning Department
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Irving Brinton Holley
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book is about the creation of a major American business, the highway construction industry. In the 1890s such an industry could scarcely be said to exist; within a generation, by the mid-1920s, highway building and all its ancillary activities had become one of the nation's greatest industries. This multi-faceted volume tells how the appallingly bad interurban highways of 19th-century USA came to be paved when the problem of financing was finally addressed after an extended campaign by diverse interest groups. Successive chapters deal with the early phases of waterbound crushed stone macadam, the hand tool and horse-powered machinery developed to build and maintain such highways, gradually giving place to steam powered machinery which lowered the cost and speeded the pace of construction. Other chapters recount the many difficult problems of contractors estimating costs to submit winning bids and learning to achieve quality production with such novel materials as asphalt and concrete. The volume fills a surprising void in the history of highway paving as very little has been written on the problems confronting highway contractors and the state engineers who supervised them. "Highly recommended." -- H.R. Grant, Clemson University, CHOICE Magazine "Drawing on extensive historical research in engineering journals, industry publications, and road-building manuals, Holley explores the multiple factors that comprised this highway revolution. Holley's account of the highway revolution is at its strongest when he is relating tales of technical innovation, pushed forward by highway workers seeking some labor-saving device." -- Michael R. Ferin, Technology and Culture

Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 996

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Accompanied by "Florida highways official detour bulletin, " Feb. 1942-

Author: South Carolina. State Highway Department
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 894

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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
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Languages : en
Pages : 188

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