My process for accumulating information was finding all of my sources first, and then analyzing and taking notes on them. After finding 10 very descriptive sources, I recorded the important points of each and put them in a list of bullet points. My notes are shown below.
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to convey water
Any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose or a bridge on an artificial watercourse
Used by the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Egyptians, and Romans
Aqueducts sometimes run for some or all of their path through tunnels constructed underground
The simplest aqueducts are small ditches cut into the earth
Agricultural societies have constructed aqueducts to irrigate crops and supply large cities with drinking water
The Indian subcontinent is believed to have some of the earliest aqueducts
Egyptians and Harappans built sophisticated irrigation systems
Roman-style aqueducts were used as early as the 7th century BC
In Oman, a system of underground aqueducts called falaj or qanāts were constructed, a series of well-like vertical shafts, connected by gently sloping horizontal tunnels
In Persia a system of underground aqueducts called qanāts were constructed, a series of well-like vertical shafts, connected by gently sloping tunnels
Petra, Jordan constructed aqueducts and piping systems that allowed water to flow across mountains, through gorges and into the temples, homes and gardens of Petra’s citizens
In Greece, the Tunnel of Eupalinos is considered an underground aqueduct and brought fresh water to Pythagoreion for roughly a thousand years
Roman aqueducts supplied fresh water to public baths and for drinking water, in large cities across the empire, and set a standard of engineering that was not surpassed for more than a thousand years. Bridges, built in stone with multiple arches, were a distinctive feature of Roman aqueducts and hence the term aqueduct is often applied specifically to a bridge for carrying water
The ancient Romans harnessed water pressure to bring the city’s monumental baths and fountains to life. Today, modern Romans Flavio and Valerio Andreoli are using gravity’s effect to produce clean power
Ancient Rome was known as Regina Aquarum, or “the Queen of Waters,”
They could make water run uphill using gravity and pressure, providing Romans two millennia ago with as much as 250 gallons of water per person daily
The Romans could not have built cities as big as they did without aqueducts—and some of their cities wouldn't have existed at all
There would not have been a bath culture & city would not have been nearly as clean
aqueducts were built only to carry the flow of water in areas where digging, burrowing, or surface grades presented problems, such as valleys
entire system relied upon various gradients and the use of gravity to maintain a continuous flow
When water reached Rome it flowed into enormous cisterns (castella) maintained on the highest ground; reservoirs held high and connected to a network of pipes
Paid laborers, slaves and the legions all had parts in building parts of the water system
11 separate aqueducts supplied the city of Rome and were built over a span of 500 years; First one= Aqua Appia built in 312 BC; Last= Aqua Alexandria built in 226 CE
Manoans= first to build gravity aqueducts 4000 yrs ago
Romans brought system to perfection
Had to find a way for water to flow uphill
Water would always find a way to level
Need to find a way for water to be as high as the city
Water from the mountain (same height as city miles away) with system underground with 20x force of gravity forces water through pipes to reservoir of equal height to the city. With lead pipes, clay would have burst
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