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THE use of motor vehicles has so completely altered the conditions of the wear and tear of the roads, that it has become necessary to find some new method of maintaining the surface and preventing' the nuisance of the dust arising from the wear of the surface by the wheels of the motors. During the last few years various processes have been tried, chiefly directed to finding some more durable means of binding the surface material with which the roads are covered. The most successful so far have been by the use of tar asphalt or oil for binding the broken granite or other road material used for repair.
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Trials of Road Materials and Construction . Nature 87, 95 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087095a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/087095a0