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Description: and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it. Elon, it almost seems, listening to you and looking at the different things you've done, that you've got this unique double motivation on everything that I find so interesting.

Henry Petroski

Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

American Author

Robert Harris

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

British Novelist

Often associated with impressive historic engineering projects of great scale.

Historic Construction

Modern use can extend to transport of other substances, not limited to water.

Not Just Water

Used within engineering and infrastructure projects, both publicly and privately constructed.

Infrastructure Context

It implies a protective passageway that safeguards its contents.

Protection Purpose

Refers to a prominent feature in civil engineering or landscape architecture.

Architectural Feature

Serves as a bridge-like structure to cross physical obstacles, like valleys or rivers.

Bridging Gaps

Refers to narrow channels in animal bodies, especially for fluid movement.

Biological Pathways

Used in medical contexts to describe anatomical structures, familiar for healthcare students.

Medical Terminology

 and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it. Elon, it almost seems, listening to you and looking at the different things you've done, that you've got this unique double motivation on everything that I find so interesting.

Elon Musk: The future...

 who would be declared a god after his own death. It’s still a mystery how engineers flooded the arena to create this aquatic effect. Some historians believe a giant aqueduct was diverted into the arena. Others think the system of chambers and sluice gates used to drain the arena, were also used to fill it.

The Romans flooded the...

 you don't need to do anything to it. And for decades now, we've been just throwing it into the sewage and then to the sea. So now this urban aqueduct, this ancient monument, is going to be used to build resilience and lower heat by supporting urban nature for the modern city of Athens.

A 3-Part Plan to Take On...

 The Roman Empire had continuously flowing aqueducts dedicated to carrying waste outside city walls. Chinese dynasties of the same period also had private and public toilets, except their waste was immediately recycled. Most household toilets fed into pig sties,

A brief history of...

 woman who had a house built at the foot of the temple of the cross and to illustrate his books there his inscriptions of the subterraneous and the aqueduct at linky and everything he would do these drawings of his friends in Palenque all this got so much

Palenque and the Ancient...

 i discovered this little soccer field near the aqueduct and i saw these young players just training you see every time this overlapping between history and daily life it's like most interesting aspect of this place

Sonic Postcards from The...

 we've met some really amazing characters out in the hills and it's been such an expansion of our knowledge of what the place is like and in the restoration we found two pieces of a Roman aqueduct and

Every Day in Tuscany PIPE...

 This massive scale and growing populous necessitated advancements in Roman engineering. Aqueducts were constructed, which increased the public's access to water, helped improve public health,

Ancient Rome 101 PIPE...

 places for technological innovation think about the Roman aqueduct but this is different this is ah this is really the whole city as a tech space like this

Building smart cities PIPE...

 as well as keen dying on us they're also quite the aqueducts taking advantage of the strings of prayer flags that crisscross the pool

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