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 ...

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 ...

To Americans of that era, "paved" meant covered in broken stone, ideally following the recommendations of Scotland's John McAdam, whose "macadamized" roads were constructed of layers of stone of ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

McAdam road rage. 13 years ago. Duration 2:03. Residents in McAdam are angry over the poor condition of Route 630, which is the main link to the areas of St. Stephen, St. George and Saint John.

F5 Networks CEO John McAdam has joined the board of Tableau Software, the fast-growing Seattle data visualization company. The appointment — the third to Tableau's board this year — may signal ...

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 ...

A 21-year-old Mesa man was being held Monday on a $750,000 bond in connection with the fatal shooting of his brother, according to court records. Evan McAdam, 21, told detectives he shot 24-year ...