How Do Public Fountains, Like Those In Rome, Work Without Using Any Type Of Motor To Pump The Water?
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at
10:03 pm
The fountains are fed from a reservoir or aqueduct that is located much higher in the landscape. Gravity produces the pressure.
Your household plumbing works on exactly the same principle. Your house doesn’t have any motor or pump yet the water still fountains upwards when you turn on the hose. That’s because the water towers and reservoirs are high enough above your tap to produce a significant pressure
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easy… they use a motor!
Austin Powers is hiding under them
Water flows from higher elevations into cisterns, large basins, which create enough water pressure for the fountains.
I’m pretty sure there is a motor & pump. You just can’t see it.
The source of the water must come from a higher point. The gravitational force pulling the water down actually causes the water to pass through the fountain and push the water up. Does that makes sense?
Well, there public fountains, or bath houses came from underground warm water springs, and the romans decided to make these places into a nice spot to relax and bathe.
they use potential energy of water stored at a level higher than that of the fountain, to convert it to kinetic energy of running water at a lower height. It is something like water that has been stored in an overhead tank in a house running out of a tap in your bathroom.