Early Water Delivery Solutions in The City Of Rome
Early Water Delivery Solutions in The City Of Rome Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct founded in Rome, commenced providing the people living in the hills with water in 273 BC, although they had relied on natural springs up until then. If inhabitants living at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to depend on the other existing technologies of the day, cisterns that gathered rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that drew the water from under ground.
To deliver water to Pincian Hill in the early 16th century, they applied the new approach of redirecting the flow from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground network. Throughout the length of the aqueduct’s route were pozzi, or manholes, that gave access. During the roughly 9 years he had the residence, from 1543 to 1552, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi made use of these manholes to take water from the network in buckets, though they were actually built for the function of cleaning and servicing the aqueduct. Despite the fact that the cardinal also had a cistern to collect rainwater, it couldn't supply sufficient water. Through an opening to the aqueduct that ran under his property, he was able to meet his water needs.
Agrippa's Astonishing, but Mostly Forgotten Water-Lifting Mechanism
Agrippa's Astonishing, but Mostly Forgotten Water-Lifting Mechanism Although the device designed by Agrippa for raising water earned the admiration of Andrea Bacci in 1588, it seemed to fade away not long thereafter. Only years afterward, in 1592, the early modern Roman waterway, the Acqua Felice, was hooked up to the Medici’s villa, probably making the technology obsolete.
In reality it was probably merely forgotten when Ferdinando went to Florence in 1588 following the expiry of his brother, Francesco di Medici, leading Ferdinando to give up his cardinalship to lock in his position as the next Grand Duke of Tuscany. It could defy the law of gravity to lift water to Renaissance landscapes, feeding them in a way other late sixteenth century models like scenographic water displays, musical water fountains and giochi d’acqua or water caprices, were not.
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