1756: John McAdam is born in Ayr, Scotland. Along the road of life, he’ll invent a new way to make the roads of our lives a smoother ride. When McAdam was 14 his father died, and the young man ...

Modern road-construction techniques can be traced to a process developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in the early 19th century. McAdam topped multi-layer roadbeds with a soil and crushed ...

Terminology explains a lot about road construction. Scottish engineer John McAdam is generally credited with designing in the early 19th century the first modern roads made by compressing thick ...

The smooth flow of traffic on modern highways is dependent on the weather of the changing seasons. The main weather hazards are ice, fog, floods and strong cross-winds. Their effects can be ...

By the way, the word macadam dates to the 1820's and John McAdam’s process of crushed stone and a binding agent to pave roads. It would not be until the early years of the 20th century that coal ...

What we think of as paved roads didn't really come along until the early 19th century when John McAdam, a Scottish engineer, figured out how to cover roadbeds with a soil-and-crushed-stone ...

This article was originally published with the title “ John Loudon McAdam, the Road-Maker ” in SA Supplements Vol. 53 No. 1372supp (April 1902), p. 21993 doi:10. ...

A cursory glance at the history books would have you believe that the man behind tar macadam was Scotsman John McAdam. While it's true he invented the method of crushed stone road surfaces he ...