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  • Thumbnail for Royal Road
    improved the existing road network into the Royal Road as it is recognized today. A later improvement by the Romans of a road bed with a hard-packed gravelled...
    8 KB (956 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2024
  • which measures the maximum vertical distance between the bridge deck (the road bed of a bridge) and the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span. A...
    34 KB (846 words) - 16:50, 29 September 2024
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    places, these all required significant civil engineering works to make a road bed past the barrier range geologist classify as the ridge-and-valley Appalachians...
    30 KB (3,791 words) - 18:37, 2 November 2024
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    roughly where it should go, the agrimensores went to work surveying the road bed. They used two main devices, the rod and a device called a groma, which...
    60 KB (7,537 words) - 19:43, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for First transcontinental railroad
    of Track, and his assistants. Hills or ridges in front of the railroad road bed would have to have a flat-bottomed, V-shaped "cut" made to get the railroad...
    144 KB (18,839 words) - 23:17, 29 October 2024
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    featured a broad road bed and did not feature lane dividers except near cities and through the mountains. The London end of the Great West Road became Britain's...
    45 KB (5,557 words) - 21:22, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bed Bath & Beyond
    Bed Bath & Beyond was an American big-box retail chain specializing in housewares, furniture, and specialty items. Headquartered in Union, New Jersey...
    60 KB (5,063 words) - 19:31, 29 October 2024
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    laid down upon a gravel road bed, producing a dust-free road. A TMS road reduces mud problems and provides stone-free roads for local residents where...
    53 KB (6,212 words) - 05:49, 3 October 2024
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    Spadina Avenue (redirect from Spadina Road)
    replaced by the 77 Spadina bus. Bricked road bed was used along the streetcar route. Small sections of the brick road bed remained until the LRT was constructed...
    18 KB (1,954 words) - 05:44, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
    Bedford–Stuyvesant (/ˌbɛdfərd ˈstaɪvəsənt/ BED-fərd STY-və-sənt), colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New...
    109 KB (11,717 words) - 01:42, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Railroad ecology
    intrusions. Railroad beds, like road beds, are designed to drain water away from the tracks, so there is usually a bed of rock and gravel resulting in...
    23 KB (2,755 words) - 20:37, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
    places the walls of granite are perpendicular and in many places the road bed is blasted out in the side of the walls of rock which overhang the track...
    34 KB (3,794 words) - 20:09, 30 October 2024
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    industrial archaeology remains. However, Dock Road still retains some of its original fan pattern cobblestone road bed and examples of Brunel's broad-gauge 'bridge...
    37 KB (3,877 words) - 16:14, 8 November 2024
  • $76 million was spent, completing the roadway only to Lawrence Avenue, and the road bed to Eglinton Avenue. Metro learned that the project would require a further...
    58 KB (7,029 words) - 03:24, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravel road
    A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. Gravel roads are common in...
    24 KB (2,461 words) - 14:46, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dover to Clarksville Road-Hickeytown Road Segment
    (2.1 km) gravel section of Old Hickeytown Road, beginning at its junction with County Road 2651. The road bed is about 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, and lined...
    2 KB (169 words) - 01:37, 29 March 2021
  • My Bed is a work by the English artist Tracey Emin. First created in 1998, it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works...
    7 KB (696 words) - 06:52, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Runaway truck ramp
    include: Arrester bed: a gravel-filled ramp adjacent to the road that uses rolling resistance to stop the vehicle. The required length of the bed depends on...
    7 KB (696 words) - 10:39, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Cross Hollow Segment
    designated Old Wire Road, and the historic segment runs northward from its junction with County Road 620, northeast of Lowell. This road bed is a part of one...
    2 KB (216 words) - 22:45, 2 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Land development
    Cambridge MA: MIT Press. OL 5795447M. Top soil is removed from the new road bed (Video). Dayton, TN: Bryan College. 2009-09-03. Archived from the original...
    20 KB (2,383 words) - 21:45, 8 June 2024
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