Highways and Highway Transportation

by George R. Chatburn

[123] “Highway Engineering,” by G. R. Chatburn, pp. 125-126.

[124] J. B. Dunlop, a surgeon of Dublin, invented the pneumatic tire in 1888.

[125] One of the early books was entitled “The Gospel of Good Roads,” by I. B. Potter, and appealed directly to the farming interests.

[126] New York Times, September 11, 1892.

[127] Adolphine Hingst, under the heading “Surprised at America. A European’s Shock on Seeing its Roads and Highways,” Boston Transcript, August 10, 1892.

[128] Good Roads, September, 1892.

[129] Engineering Record, August 27, 1892.

[130] New York Times, Sept. 11, 1892.

[131] Ibid.

[132] Printed as a Senate Document.