Chicago : Engineering and Contracting Pub. Co. · leaf 271
bout the only extended experi-ment! with iron pavements concerning whichinformation is available. Of late years fewattempts have been made to use iron as a paving material. In fact but two patents forpavements in which iron is the prime factorhave been taken out since Jan. 1, 1900. The patents… … Fig. 1. (3) Combination pavements composed ofiron pockets containing gravel, wood blocks,or bituminous materials. (4) Iron paving blocks. The first patent for an iron pavement wasgranted in 1843 to Mr. W. D. Terry. A sec-tion of the pavement is shown in Fig. 1. Ex-amples of other early iron…
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