This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...was laid in Leadenhall Street, early in 1855. By the middle of the year, it got very much out of repair, and it was relaid on concrete, the interstices being filled with concrete; but its condition was not very satisfactory. In February, 1857, it was in Y an extremely bad state of repair; and in April, it was finally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...was laid in Leadenhall Street, early in 1855. By the middle of the year, it got very much out of repair, and it was relaid on concrete, the interstices being filled with concrete; but its condition was not very satisfactory. In February, 1857, it was in Y an extremely bad state of repair; and in April, it was finally removed, after having been down for a little over 2 years. The Cellular Iron Pavement.--This pavement consists of cast-iron blocks, 14 inches square, having a flat sole with a downward stiffening rib at each edge, and honeycomb reticulations on the upper side, which are open through the casting. The six-side cells so formed, are oblong, there being six cells side by side, one way, and four the other way of the block. The cells overhang the edges a little, and are the means of interlocking the blocks vertically when the blocks are placed in position. Thus, it was designed, the paving would rest solidly and immovably on a common substratum; and any substance bike sand or gravel thrown on the pavement, was to be driven through the cells by the weight of the traffic, and would in fact constitute a continuous packing. This pavement was tried in the Poultry in 1863. Poletti and Dimpjl's Artificial Granite Pavement.--This pavement is made into blocks, 3J-inches wide, 6 inches deep, 8 inches long, composed of ordinary clay, highly compressed and then burnt. Each block weighs about 12 pounds. The bed for the pavement is levelled and made up with ordinary ballast, and the joints between the blocks, J-inch wide, are filled up with the same material. Compound Wood-and-Stone Pavement.--Mr. Newlands, in 1855, tried a system of paving granite sets and wood blocks in alternate courses, for the purpose of lessening the noise of granite pavement. A portion of Gr...
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