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Show SCOTS USED FIRST MACADAM Resident of Ayrshire Made His First Experiments About 1814 Roads Now Common. Macadam roads aro so common In America that nntlonal prldo may well lead us to look upon them ns a domestic do-mestic product. But John MncAilnni was n Scot, resident resi-dent In Ayrshre, where he mndo his llrst experiments about 1814, according accord-ing to the New York Sun. Five years later the llrst public roads wcro laid with the pavement and a grateful parliament par-liament awarded the Inventor a grant of $50,000. In 1827, after the new pavement hnd been thoroughly tested, MncAdum wus mnde surveyor general of all metropolitan roads In nnd about London Lon-don nnd the use of his method becamo general throughout tho United Kingdom. |