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Hypocaust
Hypocaust Hyp"o*caust, n. [L. hypocaustum, Gr. ?; ? under + ?
to burn: cf. F. hypocauste.] (Anc. Arch.)
A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers
and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of
a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance,
first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.
Meaning of Hypocaust from wikipedia
- A
hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a
system of
central heating in a
building that
produces and
circulates hot air
below the
floor of a room, and may...
- The
Hypocaust Museum is a
museum at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.
Situated in
Verlamium Park, the
museum provides in situ
conservation and interpretation...
- and
private baths and latrines, under-floor
heating in the form of the
hypocaust, mica
glazing (examples in
Ostia Antica), and
piped hot and cold water...
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floor has
deteriorated and is missing, with only
parts of the
hypocaust columns remaining. Hot air
circulated through the
hypocaust to heat the house....
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beginning in the
Middle Ages. It is a
direct descendant of the
Roman hypocaust, and its
feature of
regulating the rate of
combustion allows people to...
- room,
effectively making it a
ducted heating system similar to the
Roman hypocaust. A
separate stove may be used to
control the
amount of
smoke circulating...
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credited with
inventing the
cultivation of
oysters and
refinement to the
hypocaust method of
heating a
building to provide, in addition,
heated water for...
- the
underfloor heating system,
common in
Roman bathhouses,
called the
hypocaust. The
concept of the
pilae stacks is that the
floor is
constructed at an...
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suites (thermae) and many
would have had under-floor
heating known as the
hypocaust. The late
Roman Republic witnessed an
explosion of
villa construction...
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construction of
public baths.
Elite housing in
cooler climates might have
hypocausts, a form of
central heating. The
Romans were the
first culture to ****emble...
