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Lighthouse
Lighthouse, structure, usually with a tower, built onshore or on the seabed to serve as…
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Harbours and sea works
Harbours and sea works, harbour also spelled harbor, any part of a body of water and…
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Canals and inland waterways
Canals and inland waterways, natural or artificial waterways used for navigation, crop irrigation, water supply, or drainage. Despite modern…
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Bridge
Bridge, structure that spans horizontally between supports, whose function is to carry vertical loads. The…
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National and international highway systems
The Romans had realized that a coordinated system of roadways connecting the major areas of…
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New highways
The parkway The achievement of such a system in the automobile age required a new form…
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Changes in finance
From corvée to toll Through the millennia, responsibility for financing and building roads and highways…
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New paving materials
When urban street paving became widespread in the latter half of the 19th century, the…
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Roads in the age of the automobile
Beginning in the 1840s, the rapid development of railroads brought the construction of lightweight Trésaguet-McAdam…
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Early U.S. road systems
The Lancaster Turnpike The first engineered and planned road in the United States was the Lancaster Turnpike, a…