• Media type: Book
  • Title: The highway revolution, 1895 - 1925 : how the United States got out of the mud
  • Contains: To get out of the mud : who pays? -- What kind of road? the Macadam Era -- Educating rural highway builders : getting out the word on construction methods -- Horse-drawn road machinery -- Steam-powered machines for highway building -- The contractor -- The long road from asphalt streets to asphalt highways -- Gasoline power and highways -- Cement, concrete, and mixers -- Concrete highways : the boom years, 1914-1925 -- Retrospect on a revolution
  • Contributor: Holley, I. B. [Author]
  • imprint: Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2008
  • Extent: IX, 204 S.; Ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781594603532; 1594603537
  • RVK notation: ZI 6425 : Geschichte
  • Keywords: USA > Straße > Highway > Geschichte 1895-1925
    USA > Fernstraßenbau > Geschichte 1895-1925
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: To get out of the mud : who pays? -- What kind of road? the Macadam Era -- Educating rural highway builders : getting out the word on construction methods -- Horse-drawn road machinery -- Steam-powered machines for highway building -- The contractor -- The long road from asphalt streets to asphalt highways -- Gasoline power and highways -- Cement, concrete, and mixers -- Concrete highways : the boom years, 1914-1925 -- Retrospect on a revolution

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