Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Systems

Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Systems Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct assembled in Rome, started out providing the many people living in the hills with water in 273 BC, even though they had counted on natural springs up till then.

If inhabitants residing at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to depend on the other existing systems of the time, cisterns that compiled rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from below ground. From the beginning of the sixteenth century, water was routed to Pincian Hill via the underground channel of Acqua Vergine. During the length of the aqueduct’s channel were pozzi, or manholes, that gave entry. The manholes made it less demanding to clean the channel, but it was also achievable to use buckets to pull water from the aqueduct, as we saw with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he owned the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he passed away. The cistern he had made to gather rainwater wasn’t sufficient to meet his water demands. That is when he decided to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran below his residence.

"Old School" Garden Fountain Designers

"Old School" Garden Fountain Designers Water feature designers were multi-talented people from the 16th to the late 18th century, often working as architects, sculptors, artisans, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one person. Leonardo da Vinci as a creative genius, inventor and scientific virtuoso exemplified this Renaissance master. With his tremendous fascination regarding the forces of nature, he examined the qualities and mobility of water and systematically documented his observations in his now much celebrated notebooks. Early Italian water feature engineers converted private villa settings into inspiring water exhibits full with emblematic meaning and natural elegance by coupling creativity with hydraulic and gardening talent. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, celebrated for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, offered the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. Other water fountain developers, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water attributes and water antics for the countless mansions in the vicinity of Florence, were well-versed in humanistic subject areas and time-honored scientific texts.

The Dissemination of Water Fountain Design Technology

The Dissemination of Water Fountain Design Technology The published reports and illustrated books of the time contributed to the development of scientific technology, and were the primary means of dissiminating useful hydraulic facts and fountain suggestions all through Europe. An unnamed French water feature designer became an internationally renowned hydraulic innovator in the later part of the 1500's. By developing landscapes and grottoes with integrated and amazing water attributes, he started off his profession in Italy by getting imperial commissions in Brussels, London and Germany. Dissemination Water Fountain Design Technology 728656571481.jpg

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“The Principles of Moving Forces”, a book that turned into the fundamental text on hydraulic technology and engineering, was written by him toward the end of his lifetime in France. The publication modified crucial hydraulic discoveries since classical antiquity as well as detailing modern day hydraulic technologies. Archimedes, the inventor of the water screw, had his work featured and these integrated a mechanized way to move water. Sunlight heating liquid in two containers concealed in a room adjacent to an decorative water fountain was displayed in one illustration. The hot liquid expands and subsequently ascends and shuts the water pipes consequently activating the water feature. Designs for pumps, water wheels, water attributes and outdoor ponds are also mentioned in the book.