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Sergius Orata: Inventor of the Hypocaust?

Phoenix, 1996
ties of the mysterious entrepreneur Sergius Orata, though various other comments and anecdotes help fill out the picture to some degree.l On the basis of these scattered notices, some postulate that Orata invented the hypocaust, the system of underfloor heating used in Roman baths, and therefore occupies a central role in the early history of the ...
Garrett G Fagan
exaly   +2 more sources

A Note on The Roman Hypocaust, the Korean On-dol, and the Chinese Kang

Architectural Science Review, 1987
The Romans developed the hypocaust in the first century BC as a suspended floor supported on columns, which was heated by hot flue gases produced by a furnace at one end and exhausted by a chimney at the other. Later the flues were channelled under the floor and eventually passed through flues in the walls to heat also the vertical surfaces.
Henry J Cowan
exaly   +2 more sources

A Focused Survey on Technology: From Hypocaust to Smart Appliances

Computer Supported Cooperative Work / Series Ed By: Dan Diaper and Colston Sanger, 2015
It is difficult to determine exactly when smartness came to be of interest for humans the first time, but it can be hypothesized that this interest is almost genetically anchored in humans. What is clear is that smartness in general and smart enhancements for living environments in particular are not an invention of the present.
Gerhard Leitner, Leitner Gerhard
exaly   +2 more sources

The Late Antique and Medieval hypocaust systems in R.N. Macedonia [PDF]

, 2023
The hypocaust, as a room heating system, was found in the Ist century BC and it was used until the Middle Ages. In the Roman period, the hypocaust was also used as a ventilation system. In the territory of the Republic of Macedonia, the hypocaustic system, in the Roman, Late Antique and Medieval periods, was used to heat the rooms in the baths.
Nacev, Trajce, Cvetanov, Dusko
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How the Romans got themselves into hot water: temperatures and fuel types used in firing a hypocaust

Environmental Archaeology, 2009
AbstractThe remains of hypocausts are noted as being widespread throughout the Roman Empire but, whereas the structure of hypocaust systems has been widely documented, primary knowledge of operating temperatures is limited. The petrographic technique of reflectance microscopy is used here to quantify cell wall reflectance values for charcoals from the ...
Zoe Hazell, Margaret E Collinson, Andrew C Scott   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Differentiation of Hypocaust and Floor Tiles at Coriglia, Castel Viscardo (Umbria, Italy) Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Portable X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectrometry

Applied Spectroscopy, 2012
Portable X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry was used to collect elemental data for in situ hypocaust tiles and floors at an archaeological excavation site near Orvieto, Italy. Data obtained from 2009 to 2011 using three different XRF instruments are compared.
Mary Kate Donais, Bradley Duncan
exaly   +2 more sources

The development and operation of Roman hypocausted baths

Journal of Archaeological Science, 1978
Abstract Hypocausted baths represent physical systems which are susceptible to theoretical and practical examination. A consideration of the development of the hypocaust gives an idea of the state of the art at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain.
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HYPOCAUST HEATING IN DOMESTIC ROOMS IN ROMAN BRITAIN

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 1985
SummaryThe development of hypocausts heating domestic rooms is traced from the late first to the later third century. A category of hypocausta sited adjacent to major rooms and heating them indirectly is referred to in letters of the Younger Pliny and is identified in Romano‐British house plans of the first and second century.
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From hypocaust to hyperbola: ground-penetrating radar surveys over mainly Roman remains in the UK

Archaeological Prospection, 2004
AbstractGround‐penetrating radar (GPR) survey can provide a wealth of information when applied to the investigation of buried remains. The strength of the GPR technique lies both in its suitability to a wide range of site conditions and the complementary nature of the data in comparison with other geophysical techniques. However, GPR is not infallible,
Neil Linford
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A hypocaust hot air floor heating system in the Netherlands

, 2007
In 2002 a PhD study was finished on heating monumental churches at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Most of the heating systems used in the Netherlands were examined. At a number of places, which were not investigated in the mentioned study, unique heating systems are applied.
Aarle, van, M.A.P., Schijndel, van, A.W.M., Schellen, H.L.   +2 more
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