Road Rollers

by Anthony Coulls

In the nineteenth century, it became obvious that the UK's road system needed to be improved. Smoother roads were required to allow people to travel faster and more safely, and the engineers went to work to make this possible. In this book, author Anthony Coulls looks at one of the best known ways of doing this: the road roller. The first road rollers were horse-drawn and these were followed in 1865 by the steam-powered road roller, which was seen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445675803
• ISBN13: 9781445675800
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"