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Why did Romans use elevated aqueducts instead of pipes to covey water?
Most of the Romans aqueducts were underground conduits. They put the conduits on bridgework when they needed to cross a valley or when they needed to keep it at a gradient to keep the water flowing.
What roman invention was use to supply water to the citys?
While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.While the Romans used aqueducts to supply water to their cities, they did not invent them. However they did perfect/or reinvent the syphon and pumps used to control the water.
What did the Romans build to bring fresh water to their cities?
The Romans used something called an aqueduct to bring in water from lakes to their city. Aqueducts are tubes that go through mountains are elevated above valleys with a very slight angle downward then entire time. The downward slope ensures that the water will flow without the need for any sort of pump.
How did the Romans ensure that the water from the aqueducts reached the city?
The Romans did not ensure that the water from the aqueducts reached the city. The water did not come from the aqueducts. It came from the sources on the mountains. The aqueducts were what made the water reach the city. They were water conduits which carried the water. An incline was what made the water move. Down the sides of the mountains it was the slope which provided the incline. In flat areas the conduit was placed on bridgework which had a slight incline. Most of the aqueducts were underground conduits.
Why do Roman aqueducts have arches?
Romans aqueducts had arches when the water conduit was placed on top of arched bridgework. This was done when the aqueduct crossed a river or a valley or when a gradient was needed to keep a gradient to keep the water flowing in flat areas. Romans aqueducts consisted mostly of underground conduits.
Why did Romans use lead pipes for aqueducts and baths?
That was the best material they had at that time.
Why did Romans use lead pipes for aqueducts?
It wasn't. Aqueducts were made of stone, engineered to amazingly exact specifications, then polished and smoothed. Lead was actually advised against for the use in aqueducts, for its toxicity, by Vitruvius in De Architectura.
What makes aqueducts Roman?
The Romans were the first to use and create aqueducts.
What did the Romans use the aqueducts for?
Aqueducts were used by the Romans to transport water.
Why did Romans use lead pipes for aqueductsand baths?
Because they had no better materials at that time.
What did Romans uniquely construct?
Romans used concrete, the arch and domes which lead to roads, aqueducts, coliseums, baths, and basilicas .
Romans used aqueducts to?
The Romans, like anyone else, built aqueducts to supply their towns with fresh water. That is the purpose of an aqueduct. The name comes for Latin: aqua (water) and ducere (to lead). It is a water conduit.
What did the Romans use to help support the aqueducts while they are up straight?
When the aqueducts had to cross a valley or a gradient was needed to keep the water flowing, the Romans placed the water conduits on bridgework.
Inventions that Romans built that you use today?
domes, aqueducts,and system of laws
What did the ancient romans build to bring water to their cities?
The ancient Romans used aqueducts to bring water to their cities.
What did the Romans leave behind in France that were very useful?
Roads and aqueducts were abandoned in France and remained in use for years after the Romans left.
What do these aqueducts tell you about the Romans skill of building?
Please specify which aqueducts you are referring to.
