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0:00 Introduction
1:37 Building an aqueduct
3:18 Bridges, siphons, and tunnels
4:52 Distribution networks
6:59 Private connections
7:48 Maintenance
8:36 Exceptional aqueducts
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Imagine being a barbarian from the north who travels to Rome to work as a mercenary. All your life, all you knew was a village society where bathing is done in the local lake, houses are made of wood and straw, and the goats sleep in the living room with you. Now imagine encountering this level of technology. Fountains, baths, multi-storey buildings. It must have felt like being a time traveller.
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Thanks. I've always wondered how they managed the descent without instruments. Answer: they had instruments.
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Funny thing about the lead pipes is we used lead pipes even in relatively modern times. Flint Michigan rather infamously had them. And they weren't really a problem as long as the PH and mineral content of the water was controlled properly. If the PH is right, the minerals form a stable coating over the lead so very little of the lead is even in contact with the water. But if the PH is wrong, the minerals can be stripped off and the lead will leach into the water. That's what happened in Flint Michigan - the water municipality changed water sources, mismanaged the water treatment of the new source, and stripped off the mineral coating, causing lead contamination of the water supply.
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An outflow sewer from a Roman Bath was discovered under the street in my hometown, they found some really interesting things in there. Dice, game pieces ( a full set of Ludus latrunculorum pieces I think), amulets, charms etc. funny to think of a couple of soldiers playing a game of Ludus latrunculorum in the bath and someone losing and throwing the pieces down a drain in a fit of spiteful rage.
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I vacationed in Madrid, Spain a few years ago. Took a daytrip to Segovia just to see the aqueduct there. AMAZING! It was the highlight of my entire trip. It was so huge and towering. It is a stunning piece of engineering that still stands to this day. My first time to see a Roman aqueduct and I won't ever forget it. It left me speechless.
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Another great video. I imagine the effort it took to explain the idea of an aqueduct before it existed. And once fountains were mentioned, everyone got on board.
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A couple of days ago I finished reading “Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants", very informative and a dig into the daily life of emperors and peasants, artisans and slaves and everyone in between. Highly recommended for all history lovers.
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i love plumbing videos being sponsored by a history interested local plumber, even though i live on the other side of the world. We still get some of our water from roman aqueducts, maybe steve should open a european aqueduct maintenance subsidiary?
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Born and grown up in Rome, one of the most unique features of the 'Eternal City", is the never stopping sound of flowing water from fountains and "fontanelle" the bronze drinking posts also known as "nasone" (big nose) for its characteristic curved tap.
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Your research and insights are impressive. I lived in Italy for several years. Watching your videos takes me back. Grazie mille! The park of the aqueducts in Rome is a must see. Incredible what the Roman engineers accomplished 2,000 years ago. Your channel is one of the best about classical history. Please keep up the content. Bravissimo!
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I expect that there were travelling aqueduct builders who moved around the empire, going from gig to gig as a local city hired them to build their aqueduct, much like pipeline engineers (yours truly) might do today
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Most awesome sponsor ever LOL
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This is actually very helpful. In some past videos I heard you talking about how some aquaducts are still in use today (or very recently). But up until this point, I was always waiting for my favourite calm voice to explain the works of it.
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I've got tons of questions. I'll try to limit myself to a few. Did any springs stop flowing during Roman times rendering an aqueduct useless? Do we know if any diseases or plagues were traced to an aqueduct during ancient times? How many of the aqueducts are still fully functional and how many are partially functional?
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Harnessing water is a fundamental pillar of human civilization. It's amazing to see how technologically sophisticated the Roman engineers were in constructing such an intricate and substantial network of aqueducts.
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I always found it interesting that the words we use for pipework and those that install it (plumbing/plumber), have their roots in the Latin word for lead (plumbum) due to ancient pipework being made from lead. It's also why lead is listed as Pb on the periodic table.
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The thing that has always impressed me is that the fountains were pressure relief valves. Nice valves. Now I have siphon tanks to consider. Amazing.
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I lived for three years in Montpellier, very nearby to Nimes and the triple-arched aqueduct that you showed, there's one still running through the city, emerging from a center-town hill, and illuminated with the french colors at night. It's incredibly dwarfing, beautiful, and I was always impressed that "ancient romans" were able to accomplish such technological and engineering marvels........ then I learnt that it was built in the 17-18 hundreds :(
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Everyone always oohs and aahs about the Egyptian pyramids, but Roman hydraulic engineering is really the GOAT of the ancient world.
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@fritz404
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I love water
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