McAdamise

English Etymology From en McAdam ise. Verb en ise-form en macadamize. en 15 June 1830 Machine for Breaking Stone Mechanics’ & Farmers’ Magazine of Useful Knowledge I 1 New York, N.Y. 29 https://archive.org/details/sim_magazine-of-useful-and-entertaining-knowledge_1830-06-15_1_1/page/n28/mode/1up 10188694 Mr. Vawter, of Lexington, has invented a machine for breaking stone for McAdamising roads. en 9 April 1847 George Geddes Plank Roads: Their Construction and Advantages, with Observations on Present System of Making Public Roads Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society,with an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies, and of the American Institute. VI 150 Albany, N.Y. C. Van Benthuysen and Co.,public printers. 246 https://archive.org/details/transactionsnew21socigoog/page/246/mode/1up 7965075 Plank Roads have very recently been introduced into this country. According to the patent office report of January 1843, they had their origin in Russia, and were introduced into Canada by Lord Sydenham, he being induced to try the experiment in consequence of the great cost, in the first instance, of McAdamising a road, and the expense of keeping it in repair. The first road made of plank was near Toronto. The three miles nearest the city having been McAdamised; the plank road commenced, at that distance from the city, and was extended some miles into the country. en 2002 w:Cassandra Pybus; Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Green Ponds American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839–1850 East Lansing, Mich. w:Michigan State University Press 145 https://archive.org/details/americancitizens0000pybu/page/145/mode/1up 0-87013-623-2 After news leaked out that the Patriots had been employed building the local Anglican church rather than McAdamising their ways on the roads of Van Diemen’s Land, Captain Alexander Cheyne, the Director of Public Works, was called to account, and in the event he too lost his job. en eponyms