Civil Engineering

Canals and inland waterways, natural or artificial waterways used for navigation, crop irrigation, water supply, or drainage. Despite modern…

Bridge, structure that spans horizontally between supports, whose function is to carry vertical loads. The…

The Romans had realized that a coordinated system of roadways connecting the major areas of…

The parkway The achievement of such a system in the automobile age required a new form…

From corvée to toll Through the millennia, responsibility for financing and building roads and highways…

When urban street paving became widespread in the latter half of the 19th century, the…

Beginning in the 1840s, the rapid development of railroads brought the construction of lightweight Trésaguet-McAdam…

The Lancaster Turnpike The first engineered and planned road in the United States was the Lancaster Turnpike, a…

The master road builders In Europe, gradual technological improvements in the 17th and 18th centuries saw…

Europe and Asia At the zenith of the Roman Empire, overland trade joined the cultures of Europe, North Africa,…