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Roman Aqueducts and Water Mills
http://www.romanaqueducts.info/aquasite/arlesb/ ^ | 2012 | City of Arles

Posted on 02/20/2015 11:37:37 AM PST by wildbill

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To: Cicero

Failed to develop their discovery?

You did see that this particular complex was more like a modern factory complex?. It was huge with 16 water driven mills stretching down a cliff with all working off the water supplied by a twin aqueduct system going into a channel,

As far as I know, there was never anything quite like this installation built in Europe after the Roman era.

There is a great TV series on one of the History cable channels on this called Ancient Impossible. This is only one of the technological marvels that it covers.


21 posted on 02/20/2015 3:19:02 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: MCF

required reading in every school

I got the whole series from Netflix and regularly lend my copies to engineers and technicians. They are flabbergasted at the amount of knowledge they glean from the programs.

Of particular interest is one episode where he shows a GPS array which is as large as a NASA Mission Control system.

Now, we have them in our cell phones, in the palm of our hand.

Amazing how far we have come.


22 posted on 02/20/2015 4:20:50 PM PST by Paisan
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the tip. I went to YouTube and found some additional Connections programs with Burke. I’m gonna use the download thingee and keep them when I get time.

I just watched the first one about Feedback that ended up with Corn Flakes. I love that guy.


23 posted on 02/20/2015 4:55:26 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: wildbill

“What have the Romans ever done for us”. ;)


24 posted on 02/21/2015 4:14:53 AM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: jenbean

ping for later


25 posted on 02/21/2015 5:55:18 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: grobdriver

Post your picture, please.

I would love to go to Italy just to see and feel the ancient history. Everything else, is so small in comparison. It is so intriguing to me. Just to touch the stones that were placed there 2000 years ago.


26 posted on 02/21/2015 7:34:49 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Paisan
......ten-part Connections (TV series), called “Faith in Numbers.”

Excellent series. Made in 1976, the series is still relevant.

I found full episodes of this show.

http://www.infocobuild.com/books-and-films/science/connections-1978.html

27 posted on 02/21/2015 7:38:19 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: wildbill

I’m going to check the newfangled laptop thingie and see if I took my own advice about those when I was laid up last year.


28 posted on 02/21/2015 8:34:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: submarinerswife
Unable.
Is old fashioned print film and we have no scanner.
29 posted on 02/21/2015 8:50:52 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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