Early Crete & The Minoans: Outdoor Fountains

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Fountains and Water and the Minoan Civilization Along with providing water, they distributed water that accumulated from storms or waste material. They were typically made from terracotta or stone. There were terracotta pipes, both round and rectangle-shaped as well as waterways made from the same materials. Among these were terracotta conduits that were U shaped or a shorter, cone-like form which have only showed up in Minoan culture. Knossos Palace had an advanced plumbing network made of terracotta pipes which ran up to three meters below ground. The piping also had other applications such as collecting water and directing it to a main area for storing. Hence, these piping had to be ready to: Underground Water Transportation: Originally this particular process seems to have been designed not for convenience but rather to give water to specific individuals or rites without it being observed. Quality Water Transportation: The pipes may furthermore have been made use of to carry water to water fountains which were distinct from the city’s regular system.

The Dispersion of Water Fountain Design Knowledge

The Dispersion of Water Fountain Design Knowledge The published reports and illustrated pamphlets of the day contributed to the advancements of scientific technology, and were the chief means of transmitting practical hydraulic concepts and water fountain suggestions all through Europe. An un-named French water feature developer was an internationally renowned hydraulic leader in the later part of the 1500's. With imperial commissions in Brussels, London and Germany, he started his work in Italy, building expertise in garden design and grottoes with integrated and imaginative water hydraulics. The book, “The Principles of Moving Forces,” written near the end of his life in France, became the definitive writing on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Updating principal hydraulic discoveries of classical antiquity, the publication also highlights contemporary hydraulic technologies. Dominant among these works were those of Archimedes, the developer of the water screw, a mechanical method of moving water. Two concealed containers heated by sunlight in an space adjacent to the creative water fountain were shown in an illustration. The end result: the water fountain is stimulated by the hot liquid expanding and rising up the piping. Designs for pumps, water wheels, water attributes and garden ponds are also mentioned in the guide.

The Effect of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Gardens

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The Effect of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Gardens The arrival of the Normans in the later half of the eleventh century significantly altered The Anglo-Saxon ways of living. Architecture and horticulture were skills that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation. But nevertheless home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the general population. Castles were more basic designs and often built on blustery hills, where their people devoted both time and space to exercising offense and defense, while monasteries were large stone buildings, mostly positioned in the widest, most fertile hollows. The bare fortresses did not provide for the peaceful avocation of farming. The early Anglo-Norman style of architecture is exemplified in Berkeley Castle, which is perhaps the most untouched illustration we have. The keep is reported to have been developed during the time of William the Conqueror. A spacious terrace recommended for strolling and as a way to stop enemies from mining below the walls runs around the building. On 1 of these terraces lies a stylish bowling green: it is covered in grass and flanked by an old yew hedge that is created into the shape of rough ramparts.

Aqueducts: The Answer to Rome's Water Challenges

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Previous to 273, when the very first elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was established in Rome, inhabitants who resided on hillsides had to travel further down to collect their water from natural sources. When aqueducts or springs weren’t easily accessible, people living at higher elevations turned to water removed from underground or rainwater, which was made available by wells and cisterns. To offer water to Pincian Hill in the early 16th century, they implemented the emerging tactic of redirecting the circulation from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground network. As originally constructed, the aqueduct was provided along the length of its channel with pozzi (manholes) constructed at regular intervals. The manholes made it more straightforward to clean the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to extract water from the aqueduct, as we viewed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he bought the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he died. He didn’t get a sufficient quantity of water from the cistern that he had built on his residential property to collect rainwater. That is when he decided to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran beneath his residential property.