highway revolution, 1895-1925
Subtitle: how the United States got out of the mud
By: by I.B. Holley, Jr.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594603532
Subjects: Roads -- United States -- History; Road machinery -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To get out of the mud : who pays?; title: What kind of road? the Macadam Era; title: Educating rural highway builders : getting out the word on construction methods; title: Horse-drawn road machinery; title: Steam-powered machines for highway building; title: The contractor; title: The long road from asphalt streets to asphalt highways; title: Gasoline power and highways; title: Cement, concrete, and mixers; title: Concrete highways : the boom years, 1914-1925; title: Retrospect on a revolution.