b"\n_START_ARTICLE_\nTeknologi Rom\n_START_SECTION_\nPengaruh luar\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nKebanyakan apa yang telah dijelaskan sebagai teknologi Rom, bertentangan dengan yang Greek, datangnya secara lanjut daru peradaban Etruscan, yang thriving di Utara ketika Rom masih lagi sebuah kerajaan kecil. Rakyat Etruscan telah menyempurnakan gerbang batu, dan menggunakannya pada jambatan dan juga bangunan. Bandar-bandar Etruscan telah membina jalan, sistem longkang, tidak seperti banyak negara-bandar, yang mempunyai jalan tanah liat dan tiada perlongkangan kecuali filthy open-air trenches._NEWLINE_Sesetengah teknologi Rom kemudian diambila secara selanjutnya dari peradaban Greek. Banyak implementasi tanah berasaskan tentera Rom datang dari eksperimentasi dan pembangunan baru pada senjata peperangan Hellenistik yang raged berdekad di antara para pewaris Alexander Agung. kebanyakan negara bandar Greek mengendalakan senjata baru  yang dikilangkan sewaktu peperangan ini, menukarkan semula ke senjata Macedonia dan taktik yang lama, sementara Rom mengambil pembangunan baru dan menyerapkan mereka pada bentuk masyarakat mereka._NEWLINE_Roman fleets berasaskan secara lanjutnya pada Carthaginian quinqueremes tetapi menyerap secara cepat dengan inovasi Rom pada corvus (Polybius 1,21-23).\n_START_SECTION_\nKelajuan inovasi\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nInovasi skala kecil adalah umum sebagai peralatan secara tetap dibuat lebih efisien, seperti pembaikian roda overshot air dan pembaikian pembinaan wagon. Teknologi dapat dan telah muncul. Skala Empayar encouraged penyebaran geografi pada inovasi. The ideal Roman citizen was an articulate veteran soldier who could wisely govern a large family household, which was supported by slave labor. Innovators did have some prestige; Pliny, for example, often records their names, or has some story to account for the innovation. Romans also knew enough history to be aware that technological change had occurred in the past and brought benefits. Military innovation was always valued. One text, De Rebus Bellicis, devoted to a number of innovations in military machinery, has survived._NEWLINE_The apparent period in which technological progress was fastest and greatest was during the 2nd century and 1st century BC, which was the period in which Roman political and economic power greatly increased. Innovation continued until the fall of the Empire, and it would take hundreds of years for all of its technological advancements to be rediscovered by other civilizations. Our understanding of Roman technology is provided by Pliny's Naturalis Historia, the De Architectura of Vitruvius and the De Aquaductae of Frontinus, all reliable works which give good information, and many inventions they mention have been confirmed by modern archaeology. By the beginning of the 1st century, most of what is considered today as typical Roman technology was already invented and refined, such as: concrete, plumbing facilities, cranes, wagon technology, mechanized harvesting machines, domes, the arch in building practice, wine and oil presses, and glass blowing."