The Dispersion of Fountain Design Technology

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The Dispersion of Fountain Design Technology The published reports and illustrated publications of the time contributed to the advancements of scientific innovation, and were the primary means of transmitting practical hydraulic information and water fountain suggestions all through Europe. In the later part of the 1500's, a French water fountain designer (whose name has been lost) was the internationally renowned hydraulics leader. With Royal commissions in Brussels, London and Germany, he started his work in Italy, developing experience in garden design and grottoes with integrated and imaginative water features. In France, near the end of his lifetime, he penned “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a book which turned into the primary text on hydraulic technology and engineering. Detailing modern hydraulic technologies, the book furthermore modified critical hydraulic developments of classical antiquity. The water screw, a technical method to move water, and devised by Archimedes, was highlighted in the book. Sunlight heating up water in a couple of vessels hidden in a room next to an beautiful water fountain was presented in one illustration. The end result: the water fountain is triggered by the hot water expanding and rising up the conduits. Garden ponds as well as pumps, water wheels, and water feature creations are incorporated in the book.

The Source of Today's Fountains

The Source of Today's Fountains Hundreds of ancient Greek documents were translated into Latin under the authority of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V, who ruled the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. He undertook the beautification of Rome to make it into the worthy seat of the Christian world. Restoration of the Acqua Vergine, a desolate Roman aqueduct which had transported fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away, began in 1453 at the behest of the Pope. The ancient Roman tradition of building an awe-inspiring commemorative fountain at the point where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. Source Today's Fountains 4155552925124297.jpg

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The present-day site of the Trevi Fountain was previously occupied by a wall fountain commissioned by the Pope and built by the architect Leon Battista Alberti. The Trevi Fountain as well as the well-known baroque fountains located in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the modified aqueduct he had reconstructed.

Acqua Vergine: The Solution to Rome's Water Problems

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Rome’s very first elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; prior to that, residents residing at higher elevations had to depend on natural creeks for their water. If residents residing at higher elevations did not have access to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to be dependent on the other existing systems of the day, cisterns that compiled rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that drew the water from below ground. To furnish water to Pincian Hill in the early sixteenth century, they employed the new technique of redirecting the current from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground network. During the length of the aqueduct’s route were pozzi, or manholes, that gave access. The manholes made it easier to clean the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to remove water from the aqueduct, as we observed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he owned the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he passed away. He didn’t get enough water from the cistern that he had constructed on his residential property to collect rainwater. That is when he made the decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran directly below his residential property.