Excerpt from Highway Engineering: As Presented at the Second International Road Congress, Brussels, 1910 The object of the authors in writing this book was to render available to those interested in the progress of highway engineering the large mass of information relative to the construction and maintenance of roads and pavements which was presented by the various reporters and contributors at Brussels in 1910. The authors, fully appreciating the valuable knowledge which may be acquired by a close observance of the practice of highway engineering in the various countries of the world and believing that it is possible in many cases to profit by the successes and failures of others who have worked in similar fields and thus avoid costly duplication of experimental work and the waste of public and private funds through the adoption of methods which have resulted in unsatisfactory roads and pavements, wish to emphasize the fact that the subject of foreign practice has not received the attention it deserves by American engineers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.