Country Road..Take Me Home..To The Place I Belong...

[Doc Tinker]

What do you know about roads? When was the first road built? When did they start using asphalt?



Doc

 

[WDaniels]

Wasn't the very first type of asphalt used in the early 1800's. It wasn't anything like what we have now. The stuff that we have now was a process improved by a guy by the name of McCadam,... . I think.

WD

 

[MMeier]

I thought McAdam was that stuff with all the little stones and pebbles compressed together not the black stuff that is commonly refered to as "asphalt" ?

 

[Champane Flight]

I thought asphalt

I thought asphalt started around the Roman days along with major highway building? Come on Ill, where you at?

 

[illflem]

625 BC in Iraq (Babylon)

http://www.beyondroads.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=history.html

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Doc, there is a country road a few miles from here that will take you to Bethlehem, In and there is a place there for people like you to live out the rest of your days in bliss watching people fish, boat and the bardges that pass by at 3am and rattle the windows.

 

[Sled Puller]

The first concrete road was built in Ohio, some dang place.



Concrete is KING!!

 

[Ncostello]

Concrete was hard to get into pavement form... as far as folks willing to pay for it. The smooth ride sold lots of town halls on it in the beginning. They actually went around paving small sections of old country roads so the drivers could see what they were missing for a short time... then complain to the town hall president.



Actually people have used asphalt for a very long time for things other than roads. Asphalt is a naturally occuring compound that bubbles up from the earth. Good preservative too as witnessed by the "Tar" pits where they find all the wooly mammoths.



Tar is actually a man made substance derived from Crude.



Hey!! I actually remembered something from school!!

 

[Briar Hopper]

Originally posted by Sled Puller

The first concrete road was built in Ohio, some dang place.



Concrete is KING!!

Yeah, I know, I drove on it back in 1982. It was called I-71 back then. Drop off of one slab, run into the edge of the next one. Wham! Bam ! Took 'em a while to get it fixed.

 

[lschultz]

I'm still looking for that road -Country Road.

 

[Steve M]

Crap! Now I've got that song in my head...

 

[Champane Flight]

Right road

You know you are on the right road when everybody waves back.