The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain

The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain

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Publisher Description

It is is biographical book. Roads have in all times been among the most influential agencies of society; and the makers of them, by enabling men readily to communicate with each other, have properly been regarded as among the most effective pioneers of civilization. Roads are literally the pathways not only of industry, but of social and national intercourse. Wherever a line of communication between men is formed, it renders commerce practicable; and, wherever commerce penetrates, it creates a civilization and leaves a history. Roads place the city and the town in connection with the village and the farm, open up markets for field produce, and provide outlets for manufactures. They enable the natural resources of a country to be developed, facilitate travelling and intercourse, break down. local jealousies, and in all ways tend to bind together society and bring out fully that healthy spirit of industry which is the life and soul of every nation. The road is so necessary an instrument of social wellbeing, that in every new colony it is one of the first things thought of. First roads, then commerce, institutions, schools, churches, and newspapers. The new country, as well as the old, can only be effectually 'opened up, ' as the common phrase is, by roads and until these are made, it is virtually closed

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
1904
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
418
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
279.3
KB

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Soil road once rain. All wheels get stucked. Therefore need to upgrade to cement.

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