Show WORLD OWES DEBT TO Mac macadam adami pioneer of good roads end and his HI contemporary telford worthy of all gratitude the first great improvement in high way construction within modern modem timea time was effected by john loudon macadam or mcadam who was born in ayr scotland in 1756 this great engineer was the inventor of the roada road making system known as macadamize ing which Is still in general use al at though vastly improved Mac macadam adara died in 1836 at the age ot of eighty when he be was born the turnpike roade roads of england and scotland were in an incredibly bad state macadam and hie his contemporary telford were the first to check the prevailing chaca and to bring scientific methods and iregui lar system to bear upon the building repair and maintenance of highways macadam was engaged chiefly in the repair of existing roade roads rather than the construction of new ones and the improvement which he inaugurated were of great and lasting benefit not only to his native land but to the world at large telford insisted upon a foundation of broken stone in road building while macadam insisted that this waa was unnecessary and that the subsoil would carry any weight it if adequately drained and kept dry by aa an impervious covering |