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2. Macadam - Wikipedia

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   Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam c. 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly. A binding layer of stone dust (crushed stone from the original material) may form; it may also, after rolling, be covered with a cement or bituminous binder to ...

3. Asphalt concrete - Wikipedia

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   Asphalt batch mix plant A machine laying asphalt concrete, fed from a dump truck. Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, [1] blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [2]

4. Tarmacadam - Wikipedia

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   Tarmacadam is a concrete road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902. It is a more durable and dust-free enhancement of simple compacted stone macadam surfaces invented by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam in the early 19th century.

5. Indianapolis announces plans to throw its 'best response' at ...

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   At a press conference Wednesday morning outside a Family Dollar on the east side, Mayor Joe Hogsett called hot mix asphalt "the best response we have available to us" for Indianapolis' 8,400 miles ...

6. John Loudon McAdam - Wikipedia

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   John Loudon McAdam, 1830, National Gallery, London. John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 [1] – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks.

7. Filling Indianapolis potholes after 'years of unfunded roads'

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   The Indianapolis Department of Public Works has filled roughly 100,000 potholes in 2024 as of last week, which more work to come. ... one to drive the truck towing a machine that keeps hot asphalt ...