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Romans also built the second kind (minus the treatment plant), such as in Lyon. They preferred to use open air aquaducts, when possible, for economic reasons. At the time, bridges were much cheaper than piping capable of dealing with pressure. However, they could and did ake use of the inverted siphon when it made sense to do so.
What material did they use for the pressurised pumps?
Nothing, the inverse siphon method uses gravity alone. As long as the entrance to the pipe was higher than the inflow, it could work