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John McAdam

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Profession
Inventor
Died
Nov 26, 1836
Zodiac
Virgo
Born in
Scotland
About
Scottish scientists who discovered a way to make roads harder and less muddy. He called this process, "macadamization" and would use hot-laid tarred aggregate to create a smooth hard surface on the road.
Family
He married his first wife Gloriana McAdam in 1778; after her death, he married her young relative Anne Charlotte Delancey.

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