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2019-03-13, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2019
Need help for pre-industrial mega infrastructure
I've been reading up on the old worlds stuff. Aqueducts. Quants. Wells.
Any good books on this kind of things? Large scale infrastructure or building that makes life easier for everyone?
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2019-03-13, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
Re: Need help for pre-industrial mega infrastructure
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2019-03-13, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
Re: Need help for pre-industrial mega infrastructure
Maybe they mean qanats?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QanatMarut-2 Avatar by Serpentine
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2019-03-13, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2015
Re: Need help for pre-industrial mega infrastructure
I think Accelerator probably means "qanat", a form of underground aqueduct used in the Middle East, possibly invented in ancient Persia. Transliteration from Arabic script is often uncertain.
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2019-03-13, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
Re: Need help for pre-industrial mega infrastructure
Well, in that case: Barges on canals and natural waterways are a good example of the sort of infrastructure the OP seems to want.
The books of William R. Corliss seem to be well liked, but I haven't had any experience with them myself. In particular, the OP may be interested in Ancient Infrastructure: Remarkable Roads, Mines, Walls, Mounds, Stone Circles by William R. Corliss.
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2019-03-13, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2013
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Re: Need help for pre-industrial mega infrastructure
If you need wells then a shadoof is probably one of the ways you can use it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShadoofThe end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2019-03-13, 08:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2019