Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Enigmatic Aletum pump station
#1
Is anyone familiar with the enigmatic Aletum pump station near St. Malo? Maybe it's because of Sunday but I cannot figure out why would you construct a pump station, unique in the ancient world, which delivers the water to a point 2 m high, and which needs to be worked by a number of men, when the sailors could have simply taken the fresh water by kneeling at the rock-cut basin and immerging their buckets into the fresh water? I mean what am I missing here?

:?
Stefan (Literary references to the discussed topics are always appreciated.)
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Free Book Experimental Arch. Plough and Force Pump caiusbeerquitius 0 837 03-25-2014, 01:45 PM
Last Post: caiusbeerquitius
  Double Cylindre Pressure Pump / Reconstruction caiusbeerquitius 8 2,044 08-29-2012, 12:13 AM
Last Post: MDF

Forum Jump: