- 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...
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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...
- heated. A fire
under the
furnace arch
provides warm air,
conducted to the
hypocaust, an
underfloor heating system to
distribute heat to the caldarium, the...
- 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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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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floor has
deteriorated and is missing, with only
parts of the
hypocaust columns remaining. Hot air
circulated through the
hypocaust to heat the house....
- × 20 cm) that
supported a
suspended floor of a
Roman bath
covering a
hypocaust cavity through which the hot air
would flow.
Vitruvii De architectura...
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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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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...
