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Show FIRST TO BUILD GOOD ROADS I MeAdam, by His Invention and Work, I Did Much to Advance the Proa. I perlty of England. I Tho Inventor of macadamized ronds I was John Loudon McAdnm nnd few I Inventors ever gnve their name moro I currency thnn he did by his good roads I Invention. IIo wns born In Scotlnnd In 1 1700 nnd enmo pretty near becoming I an American, for ho camo to New J York In 1770 nnd remained there in fl iho employ of nn undo 13 years. Re- ' turning to England in 1783 he took up 1 tho study of rond-mnking and from I thnt time on it wns hl llfo work. Ho I wns tho father of good roads In Eng. I land. Mucuulny, In his history of I England, has a chapter on the bad I roads of that period In which ho says, 1 "On tho best lines of communication 1 tho ruts wero deep, the descents were precipitous nnd tho way often such as It wns hardly posslblo to distinguish. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck fast, until n team of cut-tlo cut-tlo could bo procured from some neighboring neigh-boring farm to tug them out of tho slough." McAdnm's views In regnrd to rond-maklng, especially in regnrd to the use of broken stone, were llnnlly odopted by thu authorities and in 1827 ho was appointed surveyor general ot ronds In Great Britain. Parliament voted him 550,000 for his services und offered him knighthood nnd a title, but ho declined them. He died In 1830 In his eighty-first year. A biographer snys: "McAdnm's efforts largely contributed con-tributed to produco thnt network or mall conch communication In England which, for some years before railways wero Introduced, greatly advanced tho 1 nation's prosperity and prepared tho I way for tho railway system." His sys- I tern was adopted In the construction of tho old national road In this country. |