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"I did more research, and realized I almost would rather be a biologist than a writer, because there was incredible stuff going on!"
- Greg Bear

Eadhamite  
  Synthetic material that creates extremely smooth roads.  

a solitary man without children, who made a big fortune speculating in roads -- the first Eadhamite roads. But surely you've heard? No? Why? He bought all the patent rights and made a big company. In those days there were grosses of grosses of separate businesses and business companies. Grosses of grosses! His roads killed the railroads -- the old things -- in two dozen years; he bought up and Eadhamited' the tracks.

And to the south over the hills, came vast aqueducts with sea water for the sewers and in three separate directions, ran pallid lines -- the roads, stippled with moving grey specks. On the first occasion that offered he was determined to go out and see these roads. That would come after the flying ship he was presently to try. His attendant officer described them as a pair of gently curving surfaces a hundred yards wide, each one for the traffic going in one direction, and made of a substance called Eadhamite -- an artificial substance, so far as he could gather, resembling toughened glass. Along this shot a strange traffic of narrow rubber-shod vehicles, great single wheels, two and four wheeled vehicles, sweeping along at velocities of from one to six miles a minute. Railroads had vanished; a few embankments remained as rust-crowned trenches here and there. Some few formed the cores of Eadhamite ways.

From When the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells.
Published by Unknown in 1899
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