How Did Renaissance Era Fountains Operate Without The Use Of Electrical Pumps?
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at
10:04 pm
We always see all these ornate and very old fountains around France and Italy. I want to know how they made them work without electricity. Where did all that water pressure come from?
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Old water systems were gravity powered. Water came into the city in aqueducts, from the hills, and was stored in elevated cisterns. This elevated storage provided the pressure to run water through the pipes and to spray it into the air in fountains.
All they had was gravity so that is what they used. After the water towers in your city are filled by electrical pumps then the distribution to customers is by gravity so that is still useful.
In Massachusetts most of the drinking water in Boston gets there (except for some recent booster pumps) using gravity from the reservoirs in the hills of the western part of the state.
I think they made the little boy statues drink a lot of water.
They did this by the pressure caused when supplying water through conduits or underground aqueducts .