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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 : Peter J. Aicher
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,76 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 : 35,98 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 : Don Nardo
Publisher : Referencepoint Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,84 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.
Author : Christer Bruun
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN :
Forfatteren tager bl.a udgangspunkt i Frontinus' (ca. år 35-ca. 104) klassiske værk: De aquae ductu urbis Romae og belyser modsigelserne
Author : A. Trevor Hodge
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
In a study ranging through the Roman aqueducts of France, Germany, Spain, North Africa, Turkey and Israel, this book provides an introduction to all aspects of Roman aqueducts and water supply.
Author : Les Standiford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0062251449
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare—behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before—considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs.
Author : Susan Raven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 113489239X
Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, TUrks, French and Italians have all occupied the region in their time. The Romans governed this part of Africa for six hundred cities, twelve thousand miles of roads and hundreds of aquaducts, some fifty miles long. The remains of many of these structures can be seen today. At the height of its prosperity, during the second and third centuries AD, the area was the granary of Rome, and produced more olive oil than Italy itself. The broadening horizons of the Roman Empire provided scope for the particular talents of a number of Africa's sons: the writers Terence and Apuleius; the first African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, famous Christian theologians like Tertulllian and Saint Augustine - these are just some who rose to meet the challenges of their age.
Author : Don Nardo
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Describes the construction of roads and aqueducts in ancient Rome, life and customs along the roads, water distribution and aqueduct maintenance, and the building of bridges.
Author : M. J. T. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521792975
A comprehensive account of ancient surveying instruments together with translations of all the ancient sources.
Author : Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN :