Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Move for Better Roads Essays: Essays on Roadmaking and Maintenance and Road Laws, for Which Prizes or Honorable Mention Were Awarded Through the University of Pennsylvania by a Committee of Citizens of Philadelphia, With a Synopsis of Other Contributions and a Review
Since Peter Cooper built the first American locomotive, sixty years ago, there has been a prodigious growth and improve ment in the railroads of the country, until a system of transporta tion has been developed that infinitely transcends that of any previous age known. This marvelous development was only possible through the employment of the highest scientific, engineering and financial talent and skill.
During the same period our common roads, while necessarily increasing with the settlement of new territory, have exhibited no marked improvement in character, and since the death of Macadam, in 1836, his mantle appears to have fallen on no other great prophet or apostle of better roads.
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