https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantalloc_Aqueducts

Well that was fascinating, thank you

Not, unfortunately

Thanks, I’m just starting out so playing with different ways of efficient manufacture, good to learn from the experts!

Those are the ones! It’s quite a distinctive word so must have stuck in my head!

Amazing, thank you for that. There’s so much that’s fascinating in linguistics!

Do you bring all raw materials to the smeltery, or do you have a smeltery per material type?

Of course German has a word for it! I did some bee research a long while back and we used to stick a tiny bit of numbered card on bees to track them. That has a German word as well, something like opalithplatchen.

What kind of language has a separate word for a tiny bit of numbered card that you stick on a bee?

It’s one of the many ways I know that as a species we’re fucked

My old neighbour had one of those kebab shop bug zapper lights which she hung outside and ran all day and all night. I couldn’t sit out because the sound of insects being disassembled was too much for me to cope with.