The Dispersion of Fountain Design Innovation

The Dispersion of Fountain Design Innovation Spreading useful hydraulic facts and water feature design ideas throughout Europe was accomplished with the written documents and illustrated books of the time. An unnamed French water feature engineer became an internationally renowned hydraulic leader in the later part of the 1500's. Dispersion Fountain Design Innovation 67753923397669083.jpg

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His know-how in developing gardens and grottoes with integrated and imaginative water attributes began in Italy and with mandates in Brussels, London and Germany. In France, near the end of his life, he published “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a publication which became the essential text on hydraulic technology and engineering. Detailing contemporary hydraulic systems, the book also modernized critical hydraulic discoveries of classical antiquity. As a mechanical means to shift water, Archimedes devised the water screw, fundamental among key hydraulic innovations. Natural light warmed the liquid in two hidden containers next to the decorative water feature were displayed in an illustration. The hot liquid expands and subsequently ascends and shuts the water lines thereby triggering the fountain. Pumps, water wheels, water features and backyard pond designs are covered in the publication.

Water Transport Solutions in Historic Rome

Water Transport Solutions in Historic Rome With the manufacturing of the 1st raised aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, folks who lived on the city’s hills no longer had to rely exclusively on naturally-occurring spring water for their needs. During this period, there were only 2 other systems capable of delivering water to higher areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. Beginning in the sixteenth century, a newer system was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean portions to generate water to Pincian Hill. The aqueduct’s channel was made reachable by pozzi, or manholes, that were placed along its length when it was 1st engineered. During the some nine years he owned the residential property, from 1543 to 1552, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi made use of these manholes to take water from the channel in buckets, though they were originally built for the goal of maintaining and servicing the aqueduct. It appears that, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t adequate to satisfy his needs. That is when he made the decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran below his residential property.

A Chronicle of Outdoor Garden Fountains

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A Chronicle of Outdoor Garden Fountains The translation of hundreds of classical Greek documents into Latin was commissioned by the scholarly Pope Nicholas V who led the Church in Rome from 1397 until 1455. In order to make Rome worthy of being the capital of the Christian world, the Pope resolved to enhance the beauty of the city. In 1453 the Pope instigated the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away. The ancient Roman custom of building an awe-inspiring commemorative fountain at the location where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. At the bidding of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti began the construction of a wall fountain in the spot where we now find the Trevi Fountain. The Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains located in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the altered aqueduct he had reconstructed.