Saturday, August 1, 2015
In the shadow of the aquaducts
It was a beautiful summer morning as we made our way out to the old roman aqueducts that brought water into Rome. It was amazing that they had the engineering and construction skills to build these giant structures with precise angles of slope to control water flow. After all those years since its construction the structure was still standing. I was able to walk around and through the structure and as the day got warmer I was even able to put my head into the water flowing out of an adjacent and more modern aqueduct.
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It's very cool see how well the aqueducts were built with the tool available at the time. They didn't have gps to help them put the 0.1% to 0.5% slope on so the water would flow the 50 some miles and get there at the right elevation
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