Water Fountains Found in Historical Documents

Water Fountains Found in Historical Documents Towns and villages relied on working water fountains to funnel water for cooking, bathing, and cleaning from local sources like ponds, channels, or springs. A source of water higher in elevation than the fountain was necessary to pressurize the movement and send water spraying from the fountain's nozzle, a system without equal until the late 19th century. Commonly used as memorials and commemorative edifices, water fountains have influenced travelers from all over the globe throughout the ages. If you saw the 1st fountains, you wouldn't identify them as fountains. A natural stone basin, carved from rock, was the 1st fountain, used for holding water for drinking and religious functions. Pure stone basins as fountains have been uncovered from 2,000 B.C.. Early fountains put to use in ancient civilizations depended on gravity to regulate the circulation of water through the fountain. Water Fountains Found Historical Documents 8859597957582665130.jpg

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Drinking water was provided by public fountains, long before fountains became elaborate public monuments, as attractive as they are functional. Fountains with decorative Gods, mythological beasts, and animals began to show up in Rome in about 6 B.C., built from stone and bronze. The extraordinary aqueducts of Rome supplied water to the incredible public fountains, many of which you can visit today.

Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Solutions

With the manufacturing of the very first elevated aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, folks who lived on the city’s hills no longer had to be dependent only on naturally-occurring spring water for their demands. If residents residing at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to count on the other existing techniques of the day, cisterns that compiled rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from below ground. To provide water to Pincian Hill in the early 16th century, they utilized the new strategy of redirecting the circulation from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground channel. Pozzi, or manholes, were engineered at standard stretches along the aqueduct’s channel. Even though they were primarily designed to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi began using the manholes to gather water from the channel, opening when he acquired the property in 1543. He didn’t get enough water from the cistern that he had established on his residential property to gather rainwater. Thankfully, the aqueduct sat below his property, and he had a shaft opened to give him accessibility.