Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

By why did they even need one here though?

[–] wischi 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because it's simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

But you have to keep water pressure throughout the length of that tube, how did they do that with their materials?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

For demonstration purposes only.

[–] tyler 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Valley was too deep for the aqueduct but they didn’t want to make the drawing taller just for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Romans were notoriously averse to making drawings taller.