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Generally, when a road encountered an obstacle, the Romans preferred to engineer a solution to the obstacle rather than redirecting the road around it: bridges were constructed over all sizes of waterway; marshy ground was handled by the construction of raised causeways with firm foundations; hills
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where they exploited gold deposits with at least five long aqueducts tapping adjacent rivers and streams. They used the water to prospect for ore by unleashing a wave of water from a tank to scour away the soil and so reveal the bedrock with any veins exposed to sight. They used the same method
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The aqueducts could stretch from 10–100 km (10–60 mi) long, and typically descended from an elevation of 300 m (1,000 ft) above sea level at the source, to 100 m (330 ft) when they reached the reservoirs around the city. Roman engineers used inverted
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Engineering was also institutionally ingrained in the Roman military, who constructed forts, camps, bridges, roads, ramps, palisades, and siege equipment amongst others. One of the most notable examples of military bridge-building in the Roman Republic was
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of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens. The final upper surface was made of concrete or well-smoothed and fitted flint.
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to move water across a valley if they judged it impractical to build a raised aqueduct. The Roman legions were largely responsible for building the aqueducts. Maintenance was often done by slaves.
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once boasted that he had turned Rome from a city of bricks to a city of marble. The Romans had originally brought marble over from Greece, but later found their own quarries in northern Italy.
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also provides an example of Roman architecture at its finest. One of many stadiums built by the Romans, the Colosseum exhibits the arches and curves commonly associated with Roman buildings.
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in southern France, where no fewer than 16 overshot mills built into the side of a hill were worked by a single aqueduct, the outlet from one feeding the mill below in a cascade.
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Such methods could be very effective in opencast mining, but fire-setting was very dangerous when used in underground workings. They were made redundant with the introduction of
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into cities was developed in the east, but transformed by the Romans into a technology inconceivable in Greece. The architecture used in Rome was strongly influenced by
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each day. Per capita water usage in ancient Rome matched that of modern-day cities like New York City or modern Rome. Most water was for public use, such as
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outside of Greece for grinding flour and spread the technology for constructing watermills throughout the Mediterranean region. A famous example occurs at
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besieging the city cut off their water supply. However they were subsequently restored and may have remained in operation until at least the time of
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Further crank and connecting rod mechanisms, without gear train, are archaeologically attested for the 6th-century AD water-powered stone sawmills at
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Cement was made of hydrated lime (calcium oxide) mixed with sand and water. The Romans discovered that substituting or supplementing the sand with a
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There were several variations on a standard Roman road. Most of the higher quality roads were composed of five layers. The bottom layer, called the
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in north-west Spain. Traces of tanks and aqueducts can be found at many other early Roman mines. The methods are described in great detail by
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ores. They were also used to produce a controlled supply to wash the crushed ore. It is highly likely that they also developed water-powered
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Roman roads were constructed to be immune to floods and other environmental hazards. Some roads built by the Romans are still in use today.
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developed anywhere. That invention was used not just in the large public buildings, but spread to domestic buildings such as the many
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and outcroppings were frequently cut or tunneled through rather than avoided (the tunnels were made with rectangle hard rock block).
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arranged in two parallel lines down the hillside. The outflow from one wheel became the input to the next one down in the sequence.
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to bring water from great distances to help operations at the pithead. Their technology is most visible at sites in Britain such as
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They were also skilled in mining, building aqueducts needed to supply equipment used in extracting metal ores, e.g.
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Roman bridges were among the first large and lasting bridges ever built. They were built with stone, employing the
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for the city. The mill was thus probably built at the same time as or before the walls were built by the emperor
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per day, sufficient to supply enough bread for the 12,500 inhabitants occupying the town of Arelate at that time.
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The Romans were among the first civilizations to harness the power of water. They built some of the first
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The Romans were the first to exploit mineral deposits using advanced technology, especially the use of
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The technology developed for the baths was especially impressive, especially the widespread use of the
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Several earthen dams are known from Britain, including a well-preserved example from Roman Lanchester,
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Water wheel technology was developed to a high level during the Roman period, a fact attested both by
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were one source of such artefacts, where a set of 16 was found in the 1920s. They also used
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developed on a very large scale in the early part of the first century AD, such as at
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Cuomo, Serafina. 2008. "Ancient written sources for engineering and technology." In
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are remarkable for their state of preservation, the former still possessing intact
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is the definitive two volume treatise on 1st century aqueducts of Rome, written by
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A thousand cubic metres (260,000 US gal) of water were brought into Rome by
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as basic structure. Most utilized concrete as well. Built in 142 BC, the
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to crush hard ore, which could be washed to collect the heavy gold dust.
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The Oxford handbook of engineering and technology in the classical world
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mines in Southwestern Spain. They were closely involved in exploiting
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An example of temporary military bridge construction is the two
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writing at the turn of millennium in his monumental work
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Reconstruction of a 10.4 m (34 ft) high Roman
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Twelve kilometers north of Arles, at Barbegal, near
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Roman engineers

Polyspastos
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Roman roads
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Aqueduct of Segovia
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Frontinus
siphons
watermills
Barbegal
hydraulic mining
Rio Tinto
gold
Dolaucothi
Wales
gold mining
Las Medulas

Alcántara Bridge

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