Constructors: The Romans Pefect a Building Block of Building

Constructors: The Romans Perfect a Building Block of Building

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One way that builders can cover a room or support weigh over an entryway is to lay a beam
horizontally across two vertical pillars .This kind of "post and beam" construction is among
the earliest know building methods, stretching back to Stonehenge and beyond . Butt it can support
only limited weight before the sags and cracks under the stress.

The Romans dad a better idea -the arch ,a curving span made from separate wedge -shaped stones.
Those stones joined at the top at a "keystone" that became the focal point of the downward pressure
exerted by whatever load the arch was supporting .The Romans didn t invent the arch.  They borrowed if  from the Greeks, and it had been used by even earlier cultures, including those of Egypt and Mesopotamia. But the Romans found a way to make it bear much larger loads. Essential no that improvement was their invention of a particularly strong variety of concrete , a mixture of rock,lime,and sandy volcanic ash. It made possible arches capable of wide spans, which became a regular feature of the monumental buildings, like the colosseums, that appeared throughout 
the Roman Imperial.


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With the arch is also became possible for the Romans to build the long aqueducts that brought water to towns throughout the empire. The grand triumphal arch, erected to mark military victories, became one of the characteristic structures of the imperial age. and it was the arch that eventually made possible the dome, among the chief innovations of Roman architecture and one they brought to perfection in  Rome s magnificent Pantheon, still the world s largest unreinforced solid-concrete dome.



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