McAdam

English Proper noun en MacAdam surnames,surnames from Scottish Gaelic. Derived terms en McAdamise,McAdamize McAdamization Noun - en macadam#Noun. en 29 August 1834 Benjamin Harwood Harwood Diaries ![10] (Jan. 14, 1833, to Oct. 18, 1834) [Stratford, Conn.] [William F. Allen] [1992] 244 https://archive.org/details/harwooddiaries1418hira/page/370/mode/1up Harwood Diaries In some places the McAdam was cut through a hill, while in others it crossed a valley - the surface of the road being from 12 to 15 & sometimes more feet above the old ground. en 1874 Amzi Dodd Schumm vs. Seymour and others Charles Ewing Green, reporter Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Court, and, on Appeal, in the Court of Errors and Appeals, of the State of New Jersey New Jersey Equity Reports XXIV IX Trenton, N.J. W. S. & E. W. Sharp,printers. 146 https://books.google.com/books?id=hVcaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA146 20660019 The street was to be graded, its sidewalks curbed and flagged, and the road-bed covered with McAdam. en 31 December 1883 Maintenance of Cast-Iron Pipe Edmund Cogswell Converse Facts About Pipe 3rd New York, N.Y. National Tube Works Company 1895 432 https://archive.org/details/factsaboutpipe00conv/page/432/mode/1up 45445893 On St. Martin Street 3 laborers and a pipe-layer were for 5 days each digging an excavation about 100 feet long (where the McAdam was very thick and, of course, hard frozen) to find a leak in the main pipe, and the appearance of the leak proved to be about 100 feet from where the leak really was, and then the main pipe was found to be broken across. en 2003 Jack Bacon About the Future My Stepdaughter’s Watch: A Forecast of Technology, Society, and the Coming Generation Houston, Tex. Normandy House Publishers part I (The Art & Act of Thinking) 47 https://archive.org/details/mystepdaughtersw0000baco/page/47/mode/1up 0-9708319-2-7 Leonardo Da Vinci drew a comprehensive sketch of a bicycle three hundred years before it was re-invented and actually placed in the hands of consumers. Imagine where we would be if the citizens of the early Renaissance had had this invention! (First, they’d need to pave all the roads with a brick or McAdam surface, and invent rubber for the tires.) Verb en macadam#Verb. en