The Tool That Built Perfectly Straight Roads
How did Romans build roads that ran straight for 50 miles? The Groma. This diagram reveals the 2,000-year-old surveying logic: by aligning two opposite hanging strings, a surveyor could establish a perfectly straight line or a perfect 90-degree corner. It is the reason Roman city grids are still mathematically perfect today:
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