Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex...
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Sir Ivison Stevenson Macadam KCVO CBE CStJ FRSE FKC (18 July 1894 – 22 December 1974) was the first Director-General of the Royal Institute of International...
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Tarmacadam (redirect from Tar macadam)
Tarmacadam is a concrete road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley...
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including his sons William Macadam, John Macadam and Stevenson Macadam, grandsons William Ivison Macadam and Stevenson J. C. G. Macadam and great granddaughter...
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Asphalt concrete (redirect from Bitumen macadam)
asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material...
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The Honorable Dr John Macadam (29 May 1827 – 2 September 1865), was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet...
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Emma Shapplin (redirect from Macadam Flower Tour Live)
Pendragon Records/EMI) Etterna (2002, Ark 21 Records/Universal Music Group) Macadam Flower (2009, Nimue Music/Universal Music Group/Sony Music) Dust of a Dandy...
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In the study of color vision, a MacAdam ellipse is roughly a region on a chromaticity diagram which contains all colors which are indistinguishable, to...
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Rachel McAdams (redirect from Rachel Macadams)
Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre degree program at York University in 2001, she worked...
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John Loudon McAdam (redirect from John MacAdam)
coal tar) to bind the road surface's stones together, "tarmac" (for Tar Macadam.) McAdam was born in Ayr, Scotland. He was the youngest of ten children...
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Elizabeth Macadam (10 October 1871 – 25 October 1948) was, along with her close friend Eleanor Rathbone, a leading figure within the National Union of...
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Macadam Stories (French: Asphalte) is a 2015 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Samuel Benchetrit, and based on the first volume of Benchetrit's...
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Nicholas Macadam (born 9 January 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays for EFL League Two club Morecambe as a midfielder. Macadam was born...
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James Chalmers Macadam (born 29 June 1988) is an English first-class cricketer. Macadam was born at Paddington in June 1988. He was educated at Eton College...
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Macadam Bumper (also released as Pinball Wizard) is a video pinball simulation construction set developed by ERE Informatique in France. It was first...
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Macadam Flower is the third album from French soprano Emma Shapplin. It is more pop-oriented than her previous work and is mainly performed in English...
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Beverly Jane MacAdam (born March 1, 1957) is a Canadian politician who has served as a senator from Prince Edward Island since May 2023. MacAdam is a chartered...
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William Macadam, brother Dr. John Macadam and two sons, William Ivison Macadam and Stevenson J. C. G. Macadam and granddaughter Elison A. Macadam. Stevenson...
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Colonel William Ivison Macadam VD FRSE FSA FIC FCS FRSSA (27 January 1856 – 24 June 1902) Colonel Professor W. Ivison Macadam was a Scottish scientist...
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The Macadam Cup is a varsity match played between the sports teams of King's College London proper (KCL) and Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine...
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Toshiko MacAdam (born Toshiko Horiuchi) is a Japanese textile artist based in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is best known for her work with large-scale...
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The MacAdam Shield-Shovel, also known as the Hughes Shovel, was an item of Canadian infantry equipment during the First World War. It was designed and...
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Macadam Tribu is a 1996 comedy-drama produced by José Zeka Laplaine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film was selected as the Democratic Republic...
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Back Streets of Paris (redirect from Macadam (1946 film))
Back Streets of Paris (French: Macadam) is a 1946 French crime film directed by Marcel Blistène. Jacques Feyder also contributed to the film in the role...
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David Lewis MacAdam (July 1, 1910 – March 9, 1998) was an American physicist and color scientist who made important contributions to color science and...
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Margaret Macadam (1902–1991) was a British illustrator who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1923-24, she was a member of the Society of Women Artists...
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Constance Clyde (redirect from Constance Jane MacAdam)
Constance Jane McAdam (1872-1951), best known under her literary pseudonym Constance Clyde, was a Scottish-born New Zealand writer and suffragette. She...
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Forgotten Genius : The biography of Robert Hooke (1635–1703). San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Pub. pp. 112–116. ISBN 978-1-931561-56-3. OCLC 53006741. Hooke, Robert...
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Geoffrey Foot (film editor) (redirect from Geoffrey Macadam Foot)
Geoffrey Macadam Foot (19 May 1915 – 9 September 2010) was a British film editor. He was born in Putney and began his career with Ealing Studios. Foot...
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