{"id":2113,"date":"2020-11-18T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2020-11-18T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:33:10","slug":"john-macadam-scientist-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/2020\/11\/18\/john-macadam-scientist-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"John MacAdam &#8211; Scientist Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John MacAdam invented tarmac.\u00a0 He discovered that small stones and lime chippings were much smoother to travel on and when heated, it became a smooth surface &#8211; tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>We road-tested our vehicles on different road surfaces. We discussed which was the best road surface material and what problems were faced with the other materials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2114\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps11\/uploads\/sites\/17981\/2020\/11\/18203220\/IMG_5685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"941\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2115\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps11\/uploads\/sites\/17981\/2020\/11\/18203225\/IMG_5697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John MacAdam invented tarmac.\u00a0 He discovered that small stones and lime chippings were much smoother to travel on and when heated, it became a smooth surface &#8211; tarmac. We road-tested our vehicles on different road surfaces. We discussed which was the best road surface material and what problems were faced with the other materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-play","category-science","tag-travelling-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}