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Show SCOTS USED FIRST MACADAM Resident of Ayrshire Made His First Experiments About 1814 Roads Now Common. Macadam roads are so common In America that national pride may well lead us to look upon them as a domestic do-mestic product. But John MacAdam was a Scot, resident resi-dent In Ayrshire, where he made his first experiments about 1814, according accord-ing to the New York Sun. Five years later the first public roads were laid with the pavement and a grateful parliament par-liament awarded the Inventor a grant of $50,000. In 1827, after the new pavement had been thoroughly tested, MacAdam was made surveyor general of all , metropolitan roads in and about I.on- ."' don and the use of his method liecnme general throughout 4,lie United Kingdom. King-dom. - -i |