The Segovia aqueduct, Spain. It gives you an idea of how insane Roman engineering was.
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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??
I spent way too much time looking for a hidden Saddam Hussein.
Narry an original thought in my head
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.
By why did they even need one here though?
Because it's simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.
But you have to keep water pressure throughout the length of that tube, how did they do that with their materials?
There is no additional pressure besides from the height/drop, so unless so have a substantial leak where you lose a lot of water, it "just works".
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.
It’s ok we all know what you imagined