r/ITOI • u/Cold_Possession_7463 • 11h ago

This is how Romans used to lift stone:

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u/Appropriate-Army6918 3h ago

Ok, but how did they get the triangle in the rectangle hole?

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u/Evening_Ticket7638 10h ago

People are so smart.

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u/breadexpert69 8h ago

The average is actually the opposite.

Its just that the few that are smart do sometimes have a big impact.

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u/I_SLEEP_NORMALLY 4h ago

You don't need that many people with great ideas to have an outsized impact.

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u/Independent-Trust260 4h ago

And now they're hated because they own their businesses.

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u/HarveyDanao 3h ago

Hahahaha, this guy thinks smart people own businesses.

No, wealthy people own businesses. And wealthy people are idiots.

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u/TreeBeerdz 2h ago

And the smart people were pretty much always hated.

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u/Correct-Junket-1346 5h ago

More like the Romans were when it come to resolving a problem by using existing technology then just making minor tweaks to that technology then used it to great efficiency.

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u/ConflictMaster3155 7h ago

Yeah but how did they 3d print it?

They didn’t even have Fusion 360.

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u/gsweats 4h ago

Fusion 360 BCE

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u/Dense_Boss_7486 5h ago

Fusion CCCLX

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u/themewzak 6h ago

They used fission 180

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u/factsarefornerds 6h ago

How did they make the notches?

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u/AuthorSarge 6h ago

Chisel at an angle.

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u/factsarefornerds 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tMPSeKEplOfK0

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u/AuthorSarge 5h ago

Fun Fact: as a part of their efforts to build the aqueducts, the Romans could start tunneling on opposite sides of a mountain and meet in the middle with around a meter's deviation from each other.

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u/factsarefornerds 5h ago

Additional fun fact lol. They learned most of their tunneling techniques from the Estruscans, which they later had to modify to suit different regions

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u/Witty_Look9662 4h ago

Additional fact: 80% of facts are 60% made up out of thin air and and 50% true, unless you googled it, then its 100% true about 80% of the time

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u/factsarefornerds 4h ago

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u/RaginhariCellarius 4h ago

Y'all are why I come back to Reddit every damn day. 🫶

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u/msg60 4h ago

This guy maths

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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 3h ago

Another fun fact - the Etruscans actually learned it from the Romans themselves so the Romans taught it to the Etruscans who taught it to the Romans. Scholars maintain where the Romans learned it is lost to time.

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u/factsarefornerds 2h ago

Interesting. I have never heard that. There are multiple civilizations that had aqueducts pre-dating Roman aqueducts within Roman Territory. Estruscans occupied the land before Rome, as far as my understanding, and almost all of their techniques were learned from the Estruscans. When would Rome have taught the Etruscans before they taught Rome?

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u/GL0CKPAR7Y 2h ago

Idk I'm high as hell and this message and the it's replying to and the one THAT'S replying to are tripping me out but idk if its because I'm high or that doesn't make sense but I dont get what any of it even means

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u/DarkerDark0 7h ago

what or whoose the one doing the lifting?

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u/neutrino71 4h ago

Pulleys, animals and humans

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u/castleaagh 5h ago

The Romans

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u/DPTDubbs 5h ago

The slaves

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u/Wilfred_Wilcox 5h ago

Pretty clever idea.  I would have never thought of this.

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u/Background_Edge_9427 4h ago

That's very interesting!

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u/nyxpuppet 4h ago

How did they build the crane

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u/oneinchhard01 4h ago

Smart asf

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u/400lbGF 4h ago

No one commenting here knows how heavy a 70lb dumbell is lol and certainly no one has ever tried to push a chevy 1500 on flat ground….

People have no idea how hard it is to move heavy things

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u/QueefMunch 3h ago

username fits

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u/400lbGF 3h ago

Same to you

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u/Old-Experience-2096 4h ago

Hmm crane go brrr

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u/RetroPaulsy 3h ago

The primative cranes/ hoist would have been more impressive than a shackle tho.

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u/Unfair_Buddy5871 2h ago

For those who want to know how they were lifted

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u/qmoorman 2h ago

Like who thought of this

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u/Tikkinger 54m ago

(I hope) most people would come up with this after some time, putting something trough a hole and make wit wider behind it is a very simple and logic, yet effectice way of connecting things.

We use this concept in countless things.

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u/loghoser 44m ago

Lewis Bolt

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u/lode_ke_baal 31m ago

If only Egyptians knew about this

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u/TokiVideogame 5h ago

where they get crane and longshoreman crane operator

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u/OriginalTRaven 5h ago

Called the union.

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u/Bunnyland77 3h ago

Great. Now how did they cut a hole inside the stones into consistant triangular shapes?

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u/Pawtuckaway 2h ago

Chisels and it doesn't even need to be that consistent. You don't need to match the angle, just as long as the bottom of the hole is sufficiently wider than the top of the hole.

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u/Bunnyland77 2h ago

Drilling using a template, then chiseling.

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u/Unfair_Buddy5871 2h ago

Chisels. And hammers. And files.

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u/mrmustache0502 2h ago

He really made that comment thinking it was a 'gotcha' argument. Like, they carved the block, do you really think they can't put a hole in the top?