Author : Peter J. Aicher
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780865162716
Aicher has crafted an ideal introduction and a valuable field companion for navigating the Roman aqueducts. Features new maps, schematic drawings, photographs, and reprints of Ashby's line drawings.
Author : A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
"How did Roman waterworks work? How were the aqueducts planned and built? What happened to the water before it got into the aqueduct conduit and after it left it, in catchment, urban distribution and drainage? What were the hydraulics and engineering involved? And what was hydraulic technology like throughout the provinces, far from the often-studied system of metropolitan Rome? In a comprehensive study that ranges through the Roman aqueducts of France, Germany, Spain, North Africa, Turkey and Israel, Professor Hodge introduces us to these often neglected aspects of what the Romans themselves would certainly boast of as one of the greatest glories of their civilisation. Although often technically oriented, the book is aimed at non-engineers (there is a chapter on basic hydraulics, and an appendix on the use of formulae), and historians of society and the economy are not overlooked. Above all, the book looks on aqueducts as functioning machines rather than as static archaeological monuments." -- Provided by publisher
Author : Thomas Ashby
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN : 9781578988549
Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935.
Author : Sextus Julius Frontinus
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Abastecimiento de agua
ISBN :
Author : Andreas N. Angelakis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1498748317
This book presents the major engineering achievements in underground aqueducts from around the world and throughout history. It provides valuable insights into water technologies and management with respect to durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. Comparisons of the technological underground aqueduct developments from several regions are made. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in water supply engineering and water management practices, and current issues of sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and decentralization have led engineers to consider combining older proven technologies with modern infrastructure advancements.
Author : Christopher R. Tompkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780738504551
This collection of rare photographs chronicles the construction of one of the largest masonry dams ever built. From the beginnings of the first Croton Dam, completed in 1842, and of the new dam, which was finished in 1907, up to the present day, The Croton Dams and Aqueduct provides a stunning portrait of the entire project and the region that it impacted: New York City and Westchester County. As early as the 1770s, New York considered creating waterworks and even proposed damming area rivers, including the Hudson. With disease and fires blamed on the lack of water, plans were created c. 1830 to dam the Croton River. By 1842, water from the first dam flowed into New York City from Yorktown. Built to provide enough water for "centuries," the first dam was obsolete by the 1880s. Exponential growth from immigration created the demand for more water, and New York built the New Croton Dam. The new dam not only provided clean water for New York's burgeoning population but also spawned a new community of immigrant workers in the once Anglo community of Westchester County.
Author : Esther Boise Van Deman
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN :
Author : Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1619703777
This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship.Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration.Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation.Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices.Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).
Author : Daṿid ʻAmit
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
41 chapters on all the known aqueducts of Israel written by the individual excavators. Includes 5 introductory chapters. The aqueducts date from the Hellenistic to the Mediaeval period. Most are Roman.
Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Referencepoint Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2014-08
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN : 9781601526342
The world's greatest structures were all built through some combination of human ingenuity, perseverance, vision, will power and, in many cases, physical might. History's Great Structures examines the practical, technological, and political challenges encountered by the designers and The Romans were the greatest builders of the ancient world, and among their most impressive achievements were their vast systems of roads and aqueducts. The roads, which featured inns and other amenities at intervals, carried soldiers, messengers, traders, and religious pilgrims far and wide. Meanwhile, the aqueducts brought life-giving water to cities and towns, making Rome¿s mighty urban civilization possible.
