John LoudonMcAdam (23 September 1756 [1 ] – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed…
John LoudonMcAdam (23. září 1756 Ayr – 26. listopadu 1836 Moffat) byl skotský inženýr a silniční stavitel. Proslavil se zejména vynálezem a aplikací nového způsobu výstavby silničního povrchu – makadamu.
John LoudonMcAdam Remarks On the Present System of Road-Making; With Observations Deduced From Practice and Experience, With a View to the Revision of the Existing Laws
Loudon is the spelling that has been used by descendants, through the generations, down to and including the present day. (Including the above "banished" General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery.)
John LoudonMcAdam was a Scottish inventor of the macadam road surface. In 1770 he went to New York City, entering the countinghouse of a merchant uncle; he returned to Scotland with a considerable fortune in 1783.
McAdam [mekedem] John Loudon . 21. 9. 1756 - 26. 11. 1836, brit. technik. Pracoval v oboru stavby silnic. Vynalezl způsob povrchové úpravy vozovek po něm nazvaný makadam.