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Reconstruction of a 10.4 m (34 ft) high Roman Polyspastos in Germany. The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments. Technology for bringing running water into cities was developed in the east, [clarification needed] but transformed by the Romans into a technology inconceivable in Greece.
Pont du Gard (1st century AD), over the Gardon in southern France, is one of the masterpieces of Roman technology. Ancient Roman technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, processes, and engineering practices which supported Roman civilization and made possible the expansion of the economy and military of ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD).
Roman military engineering was of a scale and frequency far beyond that of its contemporaries. Indeed, military engineering was in many ways endemic in Roman military culture, as demonstrated by each Roman legionary having as part of his equipment a shovel, alongside his gladius (sword) and pila ( javelins ).
The name "groma" came to Latin from the Greek gnoma via the Etruscan language.It is unclear which of the many meanings of the Ancient Greek: γνώμων gnomon (cf. Liddell & Scott, [4] "gnoma" is a form) was used, although in multiple sources the Greek term is used to designate the central point of a camp or town.
Category for ancient Roman tools. Pages in category "Ancient Roman tools" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Isaac Moreno Gallo, a Technical Engineer of Public Works specialized in Ancient Rome's civil engineering, claims that the present-day representation of the chorobates (in a table-like shape) is mistaken due to a misinterpretation derived from an incorrect translation of the Latin term "ancones" used by Vitruvius.
Roman technology supported Roman civilization and made the expansion of Roman commerce and Roman military possible over nearly a thousand years. The Roman Empire had an advanced set of technology for their time. Some of the Roman technology in Europe may have been lost during the turbulent eras of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
The Hierapolis sawmill was a water-powered stone sawmill in the Ancient Greek city of Hierapolis in Roman Asia (modern-day Turkey). Dating to the second half of the 3rd century AD, [ 2 ] the sawmill is considered the earliest known machine to combine a crank with a connecting rod to form a crank-slider mechanism .