What were some challenges engineers faced in designing aqueducts in ancient Rome?
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Valleys and low-lying areas, hills and mountains, were some of the challenges faced by Roman engineers who built Aqueducts.
The first aqueduct was built in Rome around 312 BC. By the 3rd century AD, it became common. Aqueducts carried water through channels to far away areas, by the force of gravity.
Most of the water supply for Rome, came from springs located in elevated areas. To carry water through the water course, crossing low-level areas and elevations, the engineers simply built the aqueducts around such places, taking a longer route or used a system of storage and siphon.
The aqueducts were a significant test to manufacture.
The engineering must be perfect with the end goal to get the water to go through the channels and get to the city without stagnating in the channel or coming too quick into the city.
The engineers needed to keep the incline a similar constantly, so some of the time the aqueducts needed to keep running on high curves, and different occasions along the ground in stone channels, or even under the ground in passages.
The engineers needed to utilize some really propelled geometry and measuring with the end goal to make the aqueducts turn out right.
Some Roman aqueducts, similar to the Pont du Gard, go down just a single centimeter for every 18,000 centimeters they travel horizontally.
You need to gauge precisely to get such a correct slant.