American Rural Highways

About this eBook

Author

Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford), 1878-1947

Credits

Produced by Tom Roch, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)

Language

English

LoC Class

TE: Technology: Highway engineering, Roads and pavements

Subject

Roads -- United States

Category

Text

eBook-No.

29420

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29420

Release Date

July 16, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING SERIES — E. B. McCORMICK, Consulting Editor — AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYS — McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc. — Coal Age — Electric Railway Journal Electrical World — Engineering News-Record American Machinist — Ingenieria Internacional Engineering & Mining Journal — Power Chemical & Metallurgical Engineering Electrical Merchandising — AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYS — BY — T. R. AGG, C.E. — First Edition — McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc. — NEW YORK: 239 WEST 39TH STREET — 1920
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.AMERICAN RURAL HIGHWAYS
5. 5.Chapter I — THE PURPOSE AND UTILITY OF HIGHWAYS — The Development of Highway Systems — Kinds of Traffic on Public Highways — Public Highways and Community Life — Table 1 — Truck Operation Costs, from Reports by Six Motor Truck Operators, Direct Charges per Day — Indirect Charges per Day — Table 2 — Overhead Charges per Year for a 5-ton Capacity Gasoline Motor Truck Running an Average of 50 Miles per Day for 240 Days per Year — Direct Charges per Day and per Mile for 5-ton Truck Operated as Above
6. 6.Chapter II — HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION — Highway Finance — Table 3 — Total Cost of a Loan of $100,000 for 20 Years, Interest Compounded Annually
7. 7.Chapter III — DRAINAGE OF ROADS — Types of Culverts
8. 8.Chapter IV — ROAD DESIGN — The Problem of Design — Table 4 — Average Tractive Resistance of Road Surfaces to Steel Tired Vehicles — Table 5 — Tractive Resistances to Steel Tired Vehicles [1] — Table 6
9. 9.Chapter V — EARTH ROADS — Earth Roads in Regions of Considerable Rainfall — Shaping To Proper Cross Section — Earth Roads in Arid Regions
10. 10.Chapter VI — SAND-CLAY AND GRAVEL ROADS — Gravel Road Surfaces — Table 7 — Showing Cementing Properties of Several Samples of Gravel — Placing Gravel
11. 11.Chapter VII — BROKEN STONE ROAD SURFACES
12. 12.Chapter VIII — CEMENT CONCRETE ROADS
13. 13.Chapter IX — VITRIFIED BRICK ROADS — Bedding Course for Brick Surfaces — Fillers for Brick Surfaces — Expansion Joints — Construction of the Surface
14. 14.Chapter X — BITUMINOUS ROAD MATERIALS AND THEIR USE — Table 8 — Properties of Asphaltic Road Materials — Surfaces in which Bituminous Materials are Utilized
15. 15.Chapter XI — MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAYS — Organization for Maintenance — Maintenance of Mixed Bituminous Surfaces — Maintenance of Brick and Concrete Roads
16. 16.INDEX

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