John Loudon McAdam Summary

John Loudon Mcadam 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 ... Read more

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 attent... Read more