Finite elements, roman-style: a very professional corps of ancient engineers made a lasting contribution to Western civilization.(aqueducts) Mechanical Engineering-CIME (9/1/2003)
...aqueduct was built around 20 B.C., probably by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who also built the Pantheon and other structures...ancient technology--comes from the writings of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio in the first century B.C. Among...

Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome.(Book review) The Historian (6/22/2009)
...studies. From effects, Aldrette moves on to the various flood control methods developed by such officials as Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who even traveled through the sewers by boat in 33 BC. Such efforts tended to be piecemeal, often short...