Civil engineers and inventors whose road surfaces, bridges, cable systems and bicycles built land transport infrastructure and human-powered vehicles outside the railway and the automobile. Belongs here: road-surfacing and macadam engineers, bridge engineers, cable car inventors and the inventors of the modern bicycle. Does not belong here: automobile or locomotive engineers, grouped separately, or the bridges and roads themselves, tracked as infrastructure entities.
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1. Wikipedia: John Loudon McAdam
WikipediaJohn Loudon McAdam, Bristol Turnpike Trust appointmentQuote, John Loudon McAdam, Bristol Turnpike Trust appointment
McAdam had also been appointed surveyor to the Bristol Turnpike Trust in 1816, where he decided to remake the roads under his care with crushed stone bound with gravel on a firm base of large stones.
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