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The highway revolution, 1895-1925 : how the United States got out of the mud /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holley, I. B., Jr. (Irving Brinton), 1919-2013
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Roads > United States > History.
Road machinery > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.