With the fall of the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D., the art of road building suffered a decline for fourteen hundred years. It was the eighteenth century before engineers turned their attention to making roads safe and easy to travel. One of...

1756-1836 Scottish engineer/inventor whose name is known worldwide as the father of modern road building. In 1819 McAdam appeared before Britain's House of Commons to report on his system of road building and mending. His macadam design helped...

John Loudon McAdam (September 21 1756 - November 26 1836) was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based...

BRITAIN'S GREATEST CREATOR OF ROADS since Roman times was born in Ayr, the youngest of ten children, eight of whom were girls. His parents were minor gentry: his mother was a Cochrane and a niece of the Earl of Dundonald. But the family...

Rough Riding Scout, The Story of John W. Mobberly Loudon's Own Civil War Guerrilla Hero, hy Richard E. Crouch, 51 pages, 12 illustrations. Eiden Editions, 2101 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 950, Arlington, VA 22201. Softcover $12.00 + $2.75 S & H. One of the...