Water Transport Solutions in Early Rome

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Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct founded in Rome, commenced delivering the men and women living in the hills with water in 273 BC, though they had counted on natural springs up until then. When aqueducts or springs weren’t available, people living at greater elevations turned to water taken from underground or rainwater, which was made available by wells and cisterns. To deliver water to Pincian Hill in the early 16th century, they implemented the emerging process of redirecting the circulation from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground channel. During its initial building and construction, pozzi (or manholes) were installed at set intervals along the aqueduct’s channel. While these manholes were provided to make it simpler and easier to maintain the aqueduct, it was also feasible to use buckets to extract water from the channel, which was practiced by Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi from the time he acquired the property in 1543 to his passing in 1552. He didn’t get an adequate amount water from the cistern that he had built on his residential property to obtain rainwater. To provide himself with a more effective means to gather water, he had one of the manholes exposed, providing him access to the aqueduct below his property.

How Mechanical Concepts of Water Fountains Spread

How Mechanical Concepts of Water Fountains Spread Spreading practical hydraulic facts and water feature design ideas throughout Europe was accomplished with the written papers and illustrated books of the time. An unnamed French water fountain engineer became an internationally celebrated hydraulic innovator in the later part of the 1500's. By developing gardens and grottoes with built-in and ingenious water attributes, he began his career in Italy by receiving Royal mandates in Brussels, London and Germany. Mechanical Concepts Water Fountains Spread 65079040374215.jpg

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The text, “The Principles of Moving Forces,” written near the end of his life in France, turned out to be the definitive writing on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. The publication updated important hydraulic breakthroughs since classical antiquity as well as detailing modern hydraulic technologies. As a mechanized means to push water, Archimedes devised the water screw, chief among vital hydraulic innovations. A pair of undetectable containers warmed by the sun's rays in an area adjacent to the ornamental fountain were shown in an illustration. The heated liquid expands and subsequently ascends and shuts the pipes thereby triggering the water feature. Yard ponds as well as pumps, water wheels, and water feature creations are talked about in the book.

Characteristics of Outdoor Statues in Archaic Greece

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Characteristics of Outdoor Statues in Archaic Greece The initial freestanding statuary was developed by the Archaic Greeks, a recognized accomplishment since until then the sole carvings in existence were reliefs cut into walls and pillars. Youthful, attractive male or female (kore) Greeks were the subject matter of most of the statues, or kouros figures. Regarded as by Greeks to characterize beauty, the kouroi were formed into firm, forward facing positions with one foot outstretched, and the male statues were always nude, well-built, and athletic. Life-sized versions of the kouroi appeared beginning in 650 BC. The Archaic period was an amazing time of change for the Greeks as they grew into new forms of government, created fresh expressions of art, and achieved insights of the people and cultures outside of Greece. Throughout this time and other durations of historical tumultuousness, clashes often happened, most notably battles fought between city-states such as the Arcadian wars and the Spartan invasion of Samos.