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Paving By Machinery

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
August
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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-At King WiUiam strcet, near London bridge, a curious experiment is about to be tried on the }avement of London by a machine which the Corporation imagino will lay wooden pavement and concrete foundations. The niaahine is going to take the gravel and cement needed from attendant carts, lift them tventy feet into tho air, and mix them, then lay the mixture down, pressing it with a power of 200 pounds to the squaro inch. Then tho wooden blocks aro placed in their grooves by the same machine, and adjusted. If Buccessful, the pooplo who are busying themselves with the question of how to pave London will havo achieved something of importanco.

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Old News
Michigan Argus