Machine number:
167
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Age:
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Modern name:
Londinium (London)
Machine name:
GHT00
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Machine code:
GHT00
Location_getLoc:
Gresham St
Gresham Street
England EC2V 7HQLatitude: 51.515366
Longitude: -0.093346
General description:
two water lifting machine at Gresham Street (GHT00)
1)possibly the one built in about AD63, was a chain of buckets operated by a simple treadwheel (it may have been operated by a geared shaft that was powered by animals)
2)Ironwork found in the cistern formed part of a sturdy bucket chain mechanism from AD110, similarity with Vitruvius one as a double iron chain (duplex ferrea catena). the ironwork suggest that the system was operated either by man power or animal power.
General notes / Footnotes:
chain of buckets operated by animal or human power