Sure, the surveying equipment, but other than that what did the Romans ever do for us?

Sorry I couldn't resist the opportunity! :)



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Hello, A search reveals the show in Question is What the Romans Did for Us (a six episode series from 2000), episode 4 Arteries of the Empire. "Adam Hart-Davis analyses the Romans' ingenious surveying methods that enabled them to build
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From: Allan Olley via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org>
Date: 10/24/24 10:58 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: herbert.bruderer@bluewin.ch, Brian Randell <brian.randell@newcastle.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Surveying instruments in the 17th century

Hello,

A search reveals the show in Question is What the Romans Did for Us (a six episode series from 2000), episode 4 Arteries of the Empire.

"Adam Hart-Davis analyses the Romans' ingenious surveying methods that enabled them to build their arrow-straight roads."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fl5ptx (available in the UK on BBC iPlayer)
The Romans' ingenious surveying methods that enabled them to build arrow-straight roads.

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Dear Herbert:

 

Many thanks – very interesting.

 

I’ve not paid much attention to the history of surveying instruments, but I do remember being impressed by a short program years ago on BBC TV in a series whose title was something like “What Did the Romans Do for Us?”. This particular program was about their surveying techniques and tools, in particular those used for planning and constructing impressively lengthy aqueducts.

 

Cheers

 

Brian

 

 

On 24/10/2024, 11:15, "Members" <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

Dear colleagues:

As these pictures show, surveying in the 17th century was very laborious:

 

Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments – Communications of the ACM <https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/technical-marvels-part-8-historical-surveying-instruments/> Posted Oct 23 2024

see also:

 

List of 77 blog posts on the history of analog and digital computing, technology, automatons, robots, and scientific instruments (mathematics, astronomy, surveying, time measurement, mechanical looms) published by the Communication of the ACM, New York, 2017-2024,

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760 <http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760>

 

Best wishes,

Herbert Bruderer