The Construction of Roads, Paths and Sea Defences
With Portions Relating to Private Street Repairs, Specification Clauses, Prices for Estimating, and Engineer's Replies to Queries

Intended as an illustrated reference work, this 1903 publication reflects contemporary methods and materials used in road and sea-defence construction.

Frank Latham (Author)

9781108072090, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 August 2014

256 pages, 62 b/w illus. 3 tables
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.33 kg

Professionally dedicated to civil engineering and architecture, Frank Latham became Penzance Borough Engineer and Surveyor in 1899, served as a captain in the Royal Engineers during the First World War, and designed the famous Penzance lido for the silver jubilee of George V. For a paper on the town's sea defences, the Civil Engineers of Ireland awarded him a medal in 1905. He had considerable practical experience in his field when he published this work in 1903. Originally written as a series of articles for a municipal engineering journal, the text was revised and presented to readers as an illustrated work of reference. In addition to his thorough explanation of the methods of road and sea-defence construction, Latham includes an appendix on the prices of the materials required. Contemporary advertisements for relevant companies and their various products further enhance the book's interest to historians of technology.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The necessity of good roads for traction
3. Line of road
4. Embankments
5. Sea walls
6. Drainage
7. Formation of roads
8. Road covering
9. Breaking
10. Stone laying
11. Rolling
12. Road-breaking
13a. Wood pavements
13b. Paved roadways
14. Jointing and foundations
15. Wood paving from a sanitary standpoint
16. Asphalt and tar macadam
17. Brick pavements for roads
18. Stone pavements
19. Other important pavements
20. Bridges
21. Footpaths
22. Concrete laid in situ
23. Artificial stone plants
24. Asphalt
25. Tar concrete and other pavements
26. Street railway tracks
27. Scavenging of streets
28. Cleansing
29. Snow
30. Road watering and washing
31a. Private street repairs
31b. Specimen reports
32. Specification clauses for roads and paths
33. Specification clauses for sewers and sea walls
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN]