Show MADAM WAS ROAD REPAIRER he originated method of covering surface of ground with impermeable crust or covering just years ago was born bom the first of the pioneers who took up the work of scientific road building john metcalf showed how to carr carry y solid highways across difficult bogs and thomas telford built his bis roads topped with gravel on oh a solid foundation of stone blocks but the great reform of the art cane came in with john louden mcadam who traveled miles over the english and scottish roads to study the conditions and needs for himself bestowing a new word on the language he originated the method of covering X ans macadamized road I 1 the surface of the ground with an impermeable crust cover or coating so that water would not pene to the soll soil beneath A road thus macadamized was found to yield less easily to weights pressing upon it and could not be broken up by the action of frost but while the inventors fame fa me spread his resources dwindled and though made surveyor general of roa roads ds he had to depend for his recompense n a parliamentary grant mcadam was a road repairer rather than a road builder but his system went all over the world |