I spent way too much time looking for a hidden Saddam Hussein.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health…what have the Romans ever done for us??
Gonna need a lot of water for that nymphæum 🫧
I had no idea what a nymphaeum was, and somehow I expected it to be some perverted roman thing. Turns out it’s just a fountain place used for nymphae cult and some large ones double as a place for weddings…
Won’t say what I imagined.
now i want to know how they drilled so deep, vertically and horizontally.
They were very good at sinking shafts. Roman engineering and mining was top of the line. An appalling callousness towards slave and worker casualties incurred in the process helped.
Very cool. I would of thought they used something like the archeamedas screw (oof I butchered his name. Still drinking coffee. Too lazy to Google correct spelling).
Excellent post, Pug
Funny enough, they did use Archimedes’ Screw in mining - mostly to pump out water though.
How does that siphon work? I would think they would need a pump of some kind, even if it’s just a bunch of Roman workers/slaves turning an Archimedes Screw, to get the water to go uphill.
Same way a fuel siphon works, as long as the opening is below the inlet, and the rest of the tube is full and sealed, the water will flow.
Yeah, but the water pipe goes back up meaning that there is near equal pressure on either side of the U-Siphon, right? Kind of negates the siphon, in a sense?
I’m no fluid dynamics expert. Just a casual Joe.
Because it’s simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.
Valley was too deep for the aqueduct but they didn’t want to make the drawing taller just for that
How did the Romans seal that apparatus? Cement? Even that would fail rather quickly
Lead Pipes: http://www.romanaqueducts.info/siphons/siphons.htm
Also some terracotta pipes, but not really clear how its sealed.
If you’ve ever used a siphon to drain a fish tank, it’s a similar concept. I believe the entrance is a bit higher than the exit, so I guess gravity and water pressure?
Not disagreeing with you there, but if you’ve siphoned something you’ve probably done it with a polymer, how the heck were the Romans doing it? You can’t get intestines sealed together tightly enough back in those days.