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Hot Surface: Asphalt Pavement & Steam-Powered Compaction, 1910. Source: Robert Glenn, Lakeside Industries, 1910
War Game: Transcontinental Motor Convoy, 1919. Source: 86-19-190 K.C. Downing Collection, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, 1919
The Revolutionary Tournapull, 1948. The first integral, articulated wheel tractor scraper earthmover, developed by Robert G. Letourneau. Source: Ben H. Fatherree, The History of Geotechnical Engineering at the Waterways Experiment Station, 1932-2000, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Engineer Research & Development Center (2006)
Pre-highway Era Map, 1911. Source: Map originally drawn up by Gary Holman (Eisenhower Museum), scanned from Eisenhower Foundation-Overview 10-3 (Fall 1984)
Plan for the United States Interstate Highway System, 1947. Photo courtesy of the Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC
Head-on Collision, August 27, 1952 (left), Reprinted from Hancock County Journal-Pilot (1952), scanned by Marcia Farina; The New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s Heavy Vehicle Median Barrier. (right) Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, www.uspto.gov
Tri-level Construction on the Turnpike: Route 4 Parkway and Woodridge Avenue interchange, 1950. Source: Photograph reprinted from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority Archive, from the press release entitled, “Unusual Construction on the New Jersey Turnpike”, October 24, 1950
Ensuing highway landscape of the “mixing bowl” interchange in Newark, New Jersey (left); Typical freeway-to-freeway interchanges (right). Source: U.S. Geological Survey; ©2001 California Department of Transportation, all rights reserved
Foreign Trade Zone No. 49, New Jersey, 2003. Aerial photograph featuring Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), the New Jersey Turnpike, and Port Newark/Elizabeth Container Terminal. Source: U.S. Geological Survey.
