Top 10 incredibly advanced Roman technologies that will blow your mind.

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In this video, we are going to explore the technological aspect of the Roman Empire, and what we lost when the empire fell. The Romans were a very advanced society, with many surprisingly modern technologies, some of which surprise us even today.

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0:00 Introduction
0:54 Roman Concrete
4:42 Giant Buildings
11:06 Road Network
11:55 Roman Mining
14:04 Computers
15:14 Roman Nanotechnology
16:32 Irrigation, Running Water, Heating Systems
17:44 Surgical Instruments
21:42 Steam Engine
22:58 Automation
23:51 Nero's Rotating Platform
24:55 Greek Fire
26:15 Flexible Glass

[Maiorianus_Sebastian]

Thanks for watching this video! We are planning on doing more in depth videos about roman technologies. Please let us know in which technology you are most interested in! Please comment below!
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[uChakide]

I find people's incredulity to ancient accomplishments funny. They were just as smart as we are, had a different relationship to how much time things took to do, and just because we don't know exactly how something was done doesn't mean it is impossible.

[kimberlyperrotis]

Roman engineering is absolutely amazing. They did borrow architectural aesthetics from the Greeks, directly or via the Etruscans, along with many other aspects of culture, but Roman engineering was largely home-grown, and very impressive!

[subhroroy]

Romans understood the fact that investing in infrastructure can help in making their empires stronger..Many people ignore this but they pushed engineering to such an extent that it helped in the subsequent developments in science in 16th-17th century as strong math and science is very necessary for engineering..

[Yora]

Lead contamination in Roman drinking water seems rather unlikely. The Roman plumbing system didn't have taps, so water was constantly running through the pipes. There wasn't water standing in pipes for days or weeks to potentially soak up lead particles. Most of the lead that ends up in the water would be flushed out with the constant water flow and not end with the water that was actually drunk by people.

[LREY]

They were closer to steam punk nearly dawning on an industrial revolution and pressing forward. Imagine if they had a rail system..

[malfattio]

Roman water clocks were also very impressive. They were effectively mechanical clocks, just powered by water. I wonder if any were hooked up to viaducts.

[kimberlyperrotis]

These large projects like aqueducts depended on the abilities of their surveyors, which were world-class. This often a vastly underrated aspect of engineering, but it’s not easy to get the accuracy and precision they achieved without modern laser-survey tools. Their hydraulic engineering was incredible, too, they had to calculate not only slope, volumes, flow rates, etc. but head loss along every stretch of their water delivery systems. Then their overshot water mills in series, brilliant. Their technical abilities were simply amazing.

[Catonzo]

It is my greatest sorrow that I will never be able to experience such architecture and engineering. If it was even half as beautiful as it looks in our recreations it would be a staggeringly amazing thing to behold. To just walk the streets of Rome in that time.. if only for a day. I never am able to rid myself of the thoughts of what would have happened to history had the Roman Empire never fallen. What would it look like today? Would it be better? Worse? Would we have been to the moon centuries earlier? All speculation, but it just thoughts I can't shake.

[pushlooop]

the greatest roman invention was the idea of Civitas, a political system able to include and organize all the local tribes and cities and make them work better with a common purpose

[hoponpop]

Years ago we had a massive flood which either wiped out or rendered unsafe almost every bridge in the area except one .
My cousin pointed out that bridge was concrete with two arches very similar to a Roman bridge .
Coincidence maybe or superior design .

[alexanderi]

An industrial revolution in the Roman Empire would have been so cool but by the time we got to our current age we would be like a galactic civilisation and everything would be push forward into the future by like 2000 years. Very interesting alright

[tammo]

What about Roman city planning? Like the Cardo and Decumanus, the organization of the city, standardization of city streets, shopping streets, centralization of services around the Forum, but also things like sanitation, apartment building (Insulae) and pedestrian crossings?

[Stationary]

Ok, this is my first video watched on this channel. I am definitely subscribing. Great job. Very interesting. If History was taught like this in schools it would be much more interesting to students.

[christianscharlau]

Great video, thank you very much for your work! Special thanks for including the Pantheon, which is my favourite feat of Roman ingenuity. When you stand inside the building, look up at the massive concrete dome and realize it's been there for something like 1, 900 years, it's simply mind-boggling.

[yaasinm]

Roman concrete structures last longer because they didn't use rebar.
Rebar makes concrete structures stronger if maintained.
But if water gets to the rebar, it rusts and then things start to fall apart.

[musicandbooklover-po]

You have a new subscriber. I also remember, must have been between 1977-83, when there was a river broke it's banks somewhere in Italy and a torrent ensued. The modern bridge was swept away in the flood, the Roman bridge stood it's ground and survived. That is engineering (my father was a structural and civil engineer and always had a great admiration for the engineering works of the Romans). Also their aquaducts were very carefully calculated to have a drop of something like 2.5cm over .5 of a Roman mile or a mile (sorry can't remember the exact distance off hand). Something they would have problems achieving today even with modern technology.

[e-herm]

What an incredible beautiful video again Maiorianus‼️♓️♏️
and not to forget the Roman law that I was allowed to study for a whole year in my law degree. The Roman influence and culture has never left me. So impressive.
One language and one currency as well as architecture and art.
You can see this today in important buildings such as the Capitol, Wall Street, Palaces of Justice, the parliament building in Berlin, theaters and football stadiums etc etc. Nice to connect the past with the present!!👍

[junmianzhu]

It is worth commenting the opinion that "Roman is one step away from Industrial Revolution" from an economic perspective: In the age of slavery, it more profitable to use cheap slave labor to move the mill than to invest in expensive machines.

Investment in capital (machines) is only profitable when the capital to labor cost ratio is very low (when the machines and raw materials are cheap, and labor cost is very high). It is not profitable to spend lots of money in water mills if your competitor uses plenty of cheap labor instead to move it 24/7 nonstop.

Modern industrial revolution originated in Britain because the labor cost was very high, and the coal price was low. At the same time in Japan, because of the population boom, many business discarded water mills and uses human labor instead. Once Britain build factories at massive cost, it is able to produce massive amount of textiles at much lower cost than Japan, but only after large investment in machines.

So in conclusion, the Romans were technologically advanced to proceed to industrial revolution, but the system of slavery prevents it from adopting those technologies.

[BonanzaRoad]

Thank you for another fascinating, informative and entertaining video. You are a credit to the memory of the Roman Empire!