The Dispersion of Fountain Design Technology
The Dispersion of Fountain Design Technology Throughout the European countries, the chief means of dissiminating practical hydraulic facts and fountain design suggestions were the published pamphlets and illustrated books of the time, which contributed to the development of scientific development. An internationally renowned leader in hydraulics in the late 1500's was a French fountain designer, whose name has been lost to history. His expertise in designing gardens and grottoes with incorporated and imaginative water attributes began in Italy and with commissions in Brussels, London and Germany. In France, towards the end of his lifetime, he published “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a book which turned into the primary text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Classical antiquity hydraulic developments were detailed as well as changes to key classical antiquity hydraulic breakthroughs in the book. As a mechanized way to shift water, Archimedes made the water screw, fundamental among crucial hydraulic innovations. Sunlight warming water in a couple of containers concealed in a room adjacent to an decorative fountain was shown in one illustration. The heated water expands and subsequently ascends and closes the water pipes consequently triggering the water feature.
Concepts for pumps, water wheels, water features and garden ponds are also mentioned in the book.
Modern Garden Decoration: Large Outdoor Water Fountains and their Beginnings
Modern Garden Decoration: Large Outdoor Water Fountains and their Beginnings A fountain, an amazing piece of engineering, not only supplies drinking water as it pours into a basin, it can also propel water high into the air for an extraordinary effect.Pure functionality was the original role of fountains.
Cities, towns and villages made use of nearby aqueducts or springs to supply them with potable water as well as water where they could bathe or wash. Used until the nineteenth century, in order for fountains to flow or shoot up into the air, their origin of water such as reservoirs or aqueducts, had to be higher than the water fountain in order to benefit from gravity. Fountains were an optimal source of water, and also served to decorate living areas and celebrate the artist. Animals or heroes made of bronze or stone masks were often used by Romans to beautify their fountains. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden designers included fountains in their designs to mimic the gardens of paradise. To show his prominence over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. To mark the entryway of the restored Roman aqueducts, the Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries commissioned the construction of baroque style fountains in the spot where the aqueducts arrived in the city of Rome
Urban fountains made at the end of the 19th century functioned only as decorative and celebratory adornments since indoor plumbing provided the essential drinking water. Gravity was replaced by mechanical pumps in order to enable fountains to bring in clean water and allow for beautiful water displays.
These days, fountains decorate public areas and are used to honor individuals or events and fill recreational and entertainment needs.