- 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...
- 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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Vitruvius (in his
famous book De architectura) to have
invented the
hypocaust. The
hypocaust is an
underfloor heating system that was used
throughout the Roman...
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conditions of the inhabitants.
Foremost among them is the
development of the
hypocaust, a type of
central heating where hot air
developed by a fire was channelled...
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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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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...
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beginning in the
Middle Ages. It is a
direct descendant of the
Roman hypocaust, and due to its slow rate of combustion, it
allows people to use smaller...
- 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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Hypocaust or warm air furnace...
