Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!actnyc!gcf
From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: science is STILL religion
Message-ID: <740@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 18:20:38 GMT
References: <73600013@uiucdcsp> <124@heart-of-gold> <121@aplcomm.UUCP>
Reply-To: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
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In article <121@aplcomm.UUCP> jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (James W. Meritt) writes:

>Show me a middle-ages king with central heating/air conditioning!

The Romans knew how to build houses with central heating.  A kind
of air-conditioning was brought about with clever architecture.
They also know how to construct indoor plumbing.  All of these
techniques were learned from earlier civilizations.