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Show ASPHALT IN UNIVERSAL USE First Pavement of Any Importance Was Laid in Washington in 1876 Wearing Qualities. The use of asphalt in paving construction con-struction has become so universal that one never thinks of It as a comparatively compara-tively recently developed material. Yet probably the first sheet of asphalt pavement of any Importance was that laid in Washington, D. C, on Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania avenue In 1876 and on Vermont avenue In 1879. The latter Is still In existence today, and It Is an evidence evi-dence of the wearing qualities of this type of pavement even when laid, ns it was, without the scientific methods meth-ods of the present day. |