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Cyrus Stevens Avery
Thomas Telford
John Loudon McAdam
August Leopold Crelle
Pierre-Marie-Jérôme Trésaguet
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road, traveled way on which people, animals, or wheeled vehicles move. In modern usage the term road describes a rural, lesser traveled way, while the word street denotes an urban roadway. Highway refers to a major rural traveled way; more recently it has been used for a road, in either a rural or urban area, where points of entrance and exit for traffic are limited and controlled. The most ancient name for these arteries of travel seems to be the antecedent of the modern way. Way stems from the Middle English wey, which in turn branches from the Latin veho ...(100 of 10743 words)

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