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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 Julius Caesar's bridge over the Rhine River. This bridge was completed in only ten days ...
Pont du Gard (1st century AD), over the Gardon in southern France, is one of the masterpieces of Roman technology. Ancient Roman technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, processes, and engineering practices which supported Roman civilization and made possible the expansion of the economy and military of ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD).
After the absorption of the ancient Greek city states into the Roman Republic in 146 BC, the highly advanced Greek technology began to spread across many areas of Roman influence and supplement the Empire. This included the military advances that the Greeks had made, as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments.
Whoa: Roman love letters and so many sandals The roller coaster, 70-mile-long turf and stone wall that Hadrian built coast to coast across northern England is a multi-site, must-visit Roman ...
For such projects, Roman military engineering exceeded that of any of its contemporaries in imagination and scope. One notable project was the circumvallation of the entire city of Alesia and its Celtic leader Vercingetorix , within a massive double-wall – one inward-facing to prevent escape or offensive sallies, and one outward-facing to ...
Fragments of such machines have been found in mines which were re-opened in the Victorian era in Spain, especially at Rio Tinto, where one example used no less than 16 such wheels working in pairs, each pair of wheels lifting water about 3.5 metres (11 ft), so giving a total lift of 30 metres (98 ft). The system was carefully engineered, and ...
The Pantheon in Rome is an example of Roman concrete construction. Caesarea harbour: an example of underwater Roman concrete technology on a large scale. Roman concrete, also called opus caementicium, was used in construction in ancient Rome. Like its modern equivalent, Roman concrete was based on a hydraulic-setting cement added to an aggregate.
Another notable engineering feat from antiquity still in use today is the qanat water management system. Qanat technology developed in the time of the Medes , the predecessors of the Persian Empire (modern-day Iran [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] which has the oldest and longest Qanat (older than 3000 years and longer than 71 km) [ 5 ] that also spread to ...