Ancient Roman Industrial Watermills 

nvshd A vast pool of cheap labor, in Rome's case: slaves, takes away incentive to mechanize and automate.

@@chadcastagana9181 Slaves were only plentiful during periods of military expansion. During Pax Romana, when the borders were stabilized and in fact needed to be defended, slave supply dried up. I think Navak is right, if instead of the crisis of the 3rd century, they had another 100 years to tinker and innovate, they could have very well done it.

No I think it was Ancient Aliens 👽 that did it

They probably had A lot of help from Ancient Aliens 👽👾🛸🛸👽👽

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If you find sources on the cross section area of the aqueduct and some source on the rate of flow for roman aqueducts you can find out how much water was passed through per second. Using the weight of the water and the usable height of all the water wheels you can find the total amount of energy being 'poured' in to the system per second. There were probably massive losses in the Roman machinery, but using a modern power plant you're probably looking at about 80% efficiency. That is, for each unit of energy being put in to the system (the potential energy of the water) 80% of it would be converted to electricity. Sorry but I have none of the values necessary for the calculation.

Not much. There's a reason hyrdopower is built into big dams....

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This is from an episode of Ancient Discoveries. For the exact episode in question, see the "Ancient Discoveries" Wikipedia article.

@@eIectrostatic Thank you!

History repeats itself...history proves it...

Greeks*

Wrong, egyptian engineering was notoroiously fairly poor

@LagiNaLangAko23 this is far more complex than a shaduf, lmao, it's like saying that a pointed stick is the direct progenitor of a missile

@LagiNaLangAko23 lmfao sorry mate, i didn't get it at first, ESL problems

Yeah get outta here with that asinine bullshit. The Romans were heavily influenced be it technologically, culturally, religiously, etc by the ancient Greeks Hellens. Egyptians by the roman times were heavily negrofied and mongrelized.

I have made a life regretion and i was there, so i started looking for it and I found,, grow up kid.

Those French books are translations of Roman manuscripts, which are first hand accounts of the Roman waterwheels. The "fantasy wheels" are depictions based on French waterwheels, because that's what people in France would have understood. Computer Generated Imagery, "CGI", is our only method of visually depicting these waterwheels, because in case you're too stupid to realise this, they don't exist anymore. This is a documentary program, just like those French historical books, they are trying to visually depict the Roman waterwheels to help people understand the history. The CGI isn't fucking evidence, it's a teaching aid. The holes in the ground are Roman aqueducts, which would have carried the water like modern pipes. What's important isn't the holes, but the large stones that would have been used as bushings to support the wheels and allow them to turn. Of course the wheels aren't there anymore, it's been two thousand years and they were made of wood. Archaeology is about studying the remnants of things to understand what would have been there before. The Archaeologists and Historians are using their years of experience and the founding work of others in their field to interpret historical texts and physical remains to determine that the Romans used waterwheels to grind wheat for bread with the power of the water from their aqueducts. You can go to Rome right now and see the few remaining aqueducts still standing. We know the Romans ate bread based on countless historical accounts and the many references to bread in the texts of famous works from that period like the Bible. We know they must have ground wheat using some kind of machine because they had to feed a lot of people, and we have massive millstones that couldn't possible have been operated by a single person. We have first hand accounts from people in Rome saying that waterwheels existed and were used to grind wheat. We have physical remnants of the buildings and supports that these waterwheels would have operated in. We have so much evidence suggesting that these waterwheels existed in Rome, that well educated Historians and Archaeologists were able to write papers using the evidence to argue that the waterwheels more than likely existed. None of these people, who likely have much more of an education than a complete moron like you, are saying that they are the arbiters of truth or that what they write is absolute fact. They are making an argument that based on the wealth of evidence they have spent their precious time collecting, that we can conclude the waterwheels have existed. Sorry we can't find a perfectly intact waterwheel from Ancient Rome with a signed document saying they built it, but we can absolutely justify their existence with reason.

I bet you're a flat earther

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