Whenever you get a glass of water you usually never think where it came from and how it got to your house. It feels like there is no effort involved, you turn a handle and boom water. Now think how the Romans got water without the technology we have available today. The Roman’s designed a way to get water from water sources and travel miles all the way to a city.
Aqueducts were one of the greatest technological achievements during the Roman Empire. It supplied water to the masses and helped the hygiene of the common people by supplying the water to baths and personal homes. Roman aqueducts could span miles so they had to have about a .002 degrees decline for the water to flow. When trying to tackle hills and mountains the Romans built tunnels that required a huge amoun of resources and manpower. When the Romans ran into valleys when building their aqueducts they used bridges if it was small enough, but when the valley was too large they would use siphons.
When creating our product we initially wanted to design something on paper for an aqueduct. Me and my partner decided to create sort of blueprints for a certain aqueduct to make it unique, the Aqua Claudia. We used the information online to map the aqueduct out and use the correct dimensions. We designed three “blueprints. One which showed the siphons and the viewing holes and tunnels for aqueducts. Another showed the side and front view for the Aqua Claudia, and the final showed a map of the whole length of the Aqua Claudia and In the city of Rome.
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