Tuesday 14 December 2021

What did the Romans ever do for us (or the Turks)?


Those Romans were pretty clever folk. Imagine being given the task of transporting water over a distance of 22 kms, that needed to fall from 680 metres above sea level, to just 50.

Well that's exactly what they did at Patara in Turkey, using thousands of individually carved stones that weighed about a ton each. We consider that building the Pyramids was a hefty task, but this aqueduct is certainly comparable.


I imagine there was some form of gasket (leather?) between the stones to act as a seal. Knowing the Romans, I doubt if there was hardly the tiniest of leaks.

There are many things in the world that make us gasp; this (for me) is one!
 

31 comments:

  1. The Romans did a lot for us, one of the best things was bringing viticulture over the Alps. And of course the was the Pax Romana in the occupied territories.

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    1. As soon as the Romans were gone, the Germanic tribes continued their wars against each other.
      Hilde in Germany

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    2. They were a very well organised people, and this accounts for all the great things they did.

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  2. Those Romans were a pretty clever bunch and good with regular building as well as the plumbing type.

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    1. The only thing they did which wasn't too clever, was to allow Rome to become too decadent. I see history repeating itself!

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  3. I had never heard of that. Thanks for sharing. It certainly was an incredible feat of engineering and human ingenuity. I wonder what the slave labourers said when they heard that this was what they were about to do! Perhaps - "Oh golly!" or something like that.

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    1. I don't suppose they had much say in the matter; other than a few lashes if they sneezed!

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  4. We visited the Pont du Gard some years ago when we were on our Rhone river cruise. Spectacular!

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    1. Yes, it's superb. It should be better known.

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  5. We were in Rome a year or two back , the hotel was right behind the Pantheon, its dome is still the worlds largest unreinforced concrete structure nearly 2000 years old.

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    1. Those Domes, and Vaulted ceilings, were usually built over a giant wooden template. The area above was then filled with sand and rock to create a huge weight to hold everything together. Then the wooden template was either burned away, or removed very carefully, before the decorative finish was applied. They didn't make things easy for themselves.

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  6. I have long admired what the Romans had achieved, producing glass, central heating, their roads, weapons the list goes on. I guess it is the engineer inside of me that they appeal to.

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    1. And then they blew it all by leaning back on their laurels, and wallowing in hedonism and debauchery. Rome was bound to fall.

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  7. How fascinating. I doubt there were many leaks as the Romans were experts at using waterproof mortar and concrete.

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    1. If they found a leak, I expect a slave would have had a hand cut off!

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  8. I have never seen that before. Amazing. They used a lot of lead conduit too, and much of the lead they used around the world came from the Mendips, near here.

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    1. It's an amazing piece of technology. There's a comparable underground water system in Iran which is pretty amazing too.

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  9. I just found a website and read all about it. Google kept wanting to change siphonic to symphonic. Some of the work pre-dates the Romans it is thought. Very interesting.

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    1. Personally I find each carved section (each ton of stone) more interesting that the whole. Having been a stone-cutter myself, I can appreciate the work involved. An extraordinary undertaking!

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  10. Amazing. For all the documentaries I've watched, I don't recall the Patara aqueduct construction. Thank you

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    1. It's not on 'The Seven Wonders of the World' list; maybe they should write an addendum.

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  11. The aqueduct is a true marvel. The design, materials and architecture of the water system defies the term, "built to last." Today, everything is built to fail and require renewal.

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    1. I think Electrical Co's should be made to write 'Built to Fail' on all their products. They might as well be honest.

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    2. I was told that all appliances fail in 8-9 years. Also, the manufacturers are required to provide replacement parts for only 8 years. Like clockwork, my kitchen appliances are failing at 8 years. New wall oven and convection microwave are installed. Warming drawer, fridge and dishwasher will be next!

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    3. I recently bought a new DAB Radio; it failed after about two weeks. I wrote to the Co, but no response. We had an oven in France that literally packed-up two days after the guarantee ran out (2 years). They refused to repair it. Bastards.

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    4. My current fridge is 18, the previous side-by-side fridge and freezer lasted 30 years. My washing machine is 24-25, yet in that time my daughter has had 4 machines.

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  12. It looks like some weird kind of animal now extinct.

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    1. It's an amazing structure. Even dreaming-up the idea was pretty amazing.

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  13. It was quite a feat and still there a couple of thousand years later.

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    1. But, sadly, now dry. I believe the equivalent in Iran still works.

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