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The Science of Highway Engineering

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UNDER the pressure of modern conditions, the art of road-making has of necessity become the science of highway engineering, in the process beginning to borrow freely from those older branches of applied science?chemistry, physics, geology and engineering.

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Their Uses and Testing. By Dr. Bernard H. Knight. (The Roadmakers' Library, Vol. 3.) Pp. x + 264. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1935.) 21s. net.

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CLEMENTS, R. The Science of Highway Engineering. Nature 138, 951–952 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138951a0

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