Acqua Vergine: The Answer to Rome's Water Problems

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Rome’s very first raised aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; prior to that, citizens living at higher elevations had to depend on local springs for their water. Over this period, there were only 2 other techniques capable of offering water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. Beginning in the sixteenth century, a unique approach was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean portions to deliver water to Pincian Hill. All through the length of the aqueduct’s channel were pozzi, or manholes, that gave entry. While these manholes were manufactured to make it much easier to protect the aqueduct, it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the channel, which was exercised by Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi from the time he bought the property in 1543 to his passing in 1552. Reportedly, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t sufficient to fulfill his needs. Fortunately, the aqueduct sat directly below his property, and he had a shaft opened to give him accessibility.

The Dispersion of Outdoor Fountain Design Knowledge

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The published reports and illustrated publications of the day contributed to the evolution of scientific innovation, and were the primary methods of dissiminating practical hydraulic facts and water feature suggestions all through Europe. An internationally renowned leader in hydraulics in the late 1500's was a French water fountain designer, whose name has been lost to history. His expertise in making landscapes and grottoes with integrated and ingenious water features began in Italy and with mandates in Brussels, London and Germany. In France, near the closure of his lifetime, he penned “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a book which became the essential text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Classical antiquity hydraulic breakthroughs were detailed as well as changes to essential classical antiquity hydraulic breakthroughs in the book. The water screw, a technical means to move water, and invented by Archimedes, was showcased in the book. Sunlight heated up the liquid in a pair of hidden containers adjacent to the beautiful water feature were shown in an illustration. Activating the water fountain is hot liquid which expands and ascends to seal up the conduits. Concepts for pumps, water wheels, water features and garden ponds are also mentioned in the book.