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by Marcus Minucius Audens » Tue Sep 20, 2016 3:54 pm

- This Roman surveying instrument used a shallow water trough in order to determine a given level, and from
there the rate of incline or decline could be found by measurement and mathematics. This instrument was heavy, and awkard to move and impossible to use in the smaller pipelines leading from a tunnel or small revine.
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by Marcus Minucius Audens » Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:02 pm

- Chorobates 2; Another view of the chorobates with wedges under one end of the instrument. The wedges allowed the instrument to be leveled and a measurement taken to next rate of incline or decline . This rate of fall or rise was necessary to control, so the water would run smoothly from source to the city of Rome.
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