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Ancient Roman water supply diagram
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How does that siphon work? I would think they would need a pump of some kind, even if it's just a bunch of Roman workers/slaves turning an Archimedes Screw, to get the water to go uphill.
Same way a fuel siphon works, as long as the opening is below the inlet, and the rest of the tube is full and sealed, the water will flow.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon
Yeah, but the water pipe goes back up meaning that there is near equal pressure on either side of the U-Siphon, right? Kind of negates the siphon, in a sense?
I'm no fluid dynamics expert. Just a casual Joe.
Its a bad diagram, the other side needs to be lower :/