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Show HEAT FOR ANCIENT ROME House Heating Apparstus Just Found Demonstrates How People Kept Warm 2,000 Years Ago. London. The discovery of extensive exten-sive Itoman remains at Great Cheaters, Chea-ters, on the Tyne, hns demonstrated that the Romans 2,000 years ago enjoyed en-joyed a much better system of heating heat-ing houses than Kngllshmen do at the present time. Ily the Roman system the beat was distributed evenly throughout tbe walls and floors of tbe bouse, whereas where-as the usual Ilrlttsh system Is an open fire at which your face roasts while your back freezes, and you are liable to die of cold if you go Into the cor- Bssemtnt of Old Roman House. iters of the room or the passages of the bouse. In one of the bouses of Great Cheaters Chea-ters there is a beautiful example of a bypocauat, the name of the Roman besting apparstus. Great Chesters was the site of an Important Roman military station along the great wall which the Kmperor Hadrian built to keep back the bsrbsrlans, descending on Hrltain from Scotland. The house was that of the Roman military commander. com-mander. Hot air was generated by a circular furnace, which heated water and gav out streams of hot air Into the hypov raust, which was a chamber under tbe ground floor of the house, contslnlng arrangements of hollow tile pillars called "suspensurse." From the bypocaust the hot air was distributed throughout the building by a aeries of wall and floor flues, giving an even temperature throughout the bouse. This system was Invented shortly before the time of the Emperor lag-ustus, lag-ustus, who reigned from 2? It. C to J 4 A. D. and wss soon adopted not only In pubUc baths, but tn prime touaea. |