Show WORLD OWES DEBT TO THESS macadam pioneer of good roads roada sni and his hie contemporary telford worthy of all gratitude the first great improvement in bigaj way construction within modern modem timea almea was affected by john loudon Maca macadam daml or mcadam who was born barn in ayr scotland in 1766 this grea great scotch scota Y engineer was the ilia inventor of tho the roada road making system known as aa macada macadams mW ing which Is still in general use at al though vastly improved macadam died in at tho the ago of eighty when ho he was born tho the turnpike roads roada of E england and scotland were in an incredibly bad state macadam and his contemporary telford were tho the first to check the prevailing lne chaos and to bring brine scientific methods and regu lar system to bear upon the building repair and maintenance ot of high highways wAya macadam was engaged chiefly in the tha repair of existing roads rather than tho the construction of now new ones and the tha improvements which he inaugurated were of great and lasting benefit not only to hla his native land but to the tha world at largo large telford insisted upon a foundation of broken stone in road building while macadam insisted Inal that this was unnecessary and that the subsoil would carry any weight it if adequately drained and kept dry by an impervious covering I 1 |