Article ID: CBB755187854

Comparative Analysis of Water Extraction Mechanism in Roman Mines (2024)

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The removal of water from mines was one of the key issues that former miners had to deal with. Roman colonists brought new technology to the Iberian Peninsula that addressed this problem. However, they did not invent this technology because it had already been applied to the growth of other endeavours in the Hellenistic society throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. In the mine, the Archimedes screw, waterwheels, bucket pulleys, and Ctesibius pumps were the primary drainage systems. In this essay, the primary characteristics, and modes of operation of machines are examined. Without leaving out the most significant finds made in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, one of the regions with the longest history of mining exploitation. To serve as a foundation for future research in this field, this work compares the primary mining mechanisms in ancient Huelva on a qualitative and quantitative level by the implementation of a TOPSIS methodology, a multi-criteria decision analysis method.

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Article Marco Ceccarelli; Rafael López-García (2024) Introduction to the Special Issue: Findings of History of Mechanism Science. Foundations of Science (pp. 1-4). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Paolo de Vingo
Bankoff, Greg
Bruun, Christer
Decker, Michael
Giorgi, Elisabetta
Kosso, Cynthia
Journals
Environmental History
Foundations of Science
Der Anschnitt: Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur im Bergbau
Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
Renaissance Quarterly
Publishers
Insegna del Giglio
Cambridge University Press
Brill
Texas State Historical Association
The MIT Press
University of Nebraska Press
Concepts
Water
Technology
Water resource management
Irrigation; drainage
Water supply
Mines and mining
People
Cotton, Arthur, Sir
Time Periods
Ancient
20th century
Medieval
19th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
Italy
Rome (Italy)
United States
Piedmont
Tuscany (Italy)
India
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