The technology of the 1st – and 2nd – century roman bucket chains from London: from excavation to reconstruction
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8 avril 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.ausonius.10458
- isbn: 9782910023577
- eisbn: 9782356132956
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Ian Blair et al., « The technology of the 1st – and 2nd – century roman bucket chains from London: from excavation to reconstruction », Ausonius Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.ausonius.10458
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1. Introduction The problem of how efficiently to extract and distribute fresh water from deep wells, storage cisterns and sources on the surface, such as rivers and streams, has required ingenuity on the part of man since the earliest times. Although many of the solutions have remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years and are relatively simple, such as the shādūf, most water-lifting devices had limitations in terms of the volume of water that they could effectively lift and the dep...