Talk:Roman bridge

Design method

All my life I've heard the legend that Roman bridges were so good in part because the builders staked their lives on them, forced to stand under them whilst they were marched upon for the first time. Is this but an amusing story? -- Gwern (contribs) 19:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Quotation

“ The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it. ” — Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb. 2003

Ah. Thanks! --Gwern (contribs) 00:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Arch bridge

Redirects from "Roman segmented arch bridge" added, to remove a lot of red links Hugo999 (talk) 23:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

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Bridge decoration

I read an interesting passage in Ammianus Marcellinus about Roman bridges. He states that the Huns looked like "the stout figures which are hewn out in a rude manner with an axe on the posts at the end of bridges."[1] I did not see much information on how the Romans decorated their bridges in this article. If information on this aspect of Roman bridges exists, it should be added to the article.-Schnurrbart (talk) 17:23, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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Hydraulic holes

In French, we have a name for the holes dedicated to alleviate hydraulic pressure if/when river overflows; like on the Pons Fabricius picture

It's named ouïe de pont, the same word for violin sound hole

Somebody knows the corresponding English word? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Disdero (talk • contribs) 09:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

A caption on the flood arch article calls it a pierced spandrel, which describes its structure though not its function. Dave.Dunford (talk) 08:34, 28 June 2018 (UTC)