What powered them?
2006-08-12 21:53:40 · 15 answers · asked by True Blue Brit 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Oh please tell me more beyond gravity!
2006-08-12 21:58:08 · update #1
Yes smug guy, I do. I also appreciate how easy our lives are with electricity. However, I'm assuming fountains weren't powered by the sun, steam or wind. Slave labour? Surely not. Thanks to those people who gave the answer and relieved my ignorance.
2006-08-12 22:07:43 · update #2
Through gravity, see for example the Versailles with all these fountains, they still work without electricity, the only modernization is that they use pumps to redirect the water up again to reduce water consumption. They use gravity, placing the fountains on different elevetion levels and connecting 3-4 fountains in a row, so water flows through all of them....
2006-08-12 21:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by itifonhom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Artesian, as in the well. As already said the pressure from gravity would force the water up through the nearest opening. The narrower the opening coupled with a higher source, the more powerful the fountain. The source could be natural or man made. Take a look at the USA. You often see those huge water tanks standing up above a town. They work in a similar way. Initially the water would have been pumped up into the tower but as it's taken out (household usage etc) it creates a suction vacuum which itself causes more water to be sucked up from the ground, (or below) to keep the tank full. Valves help to control this.
2006-08-12 22:39:34 · answer #2 · answered by dogfishperson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early fountains depended on the natural gravity flow of water, from a spring or aqueduct supplied by a distant and higher source of water, which provided hydraulic head.
2006-08-12 21:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity.You need a water holding tank,higher than the expected height of the head of fountain.
2006-08-12 22:08:06 · answer #4 · answered by morasice17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water was stored in an elevated tank, which created pressure.
The pipe leading from the tank was gradually narrowed until it reached the fountain.
2006-08-12 22:01:28 · answer #5 · answered by hott.dawg™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water displacement. "Gas out of gas tank." They would start it with a pump, by hand or wind power.
2006-08-12 22:00:47 · answer #6 · answered by J W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the main by oil/fuel motor operated bellows, tubes or other pressure cylinders creating compressed air through air pumps, something like that
2006-08-12 22:28:31 · answer #7 · answered by sharky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity and pressure I would think.You could create one yourself if you had all the bits you would need.
2006-08-12 22:01:16 · answer #8 · answered by Julie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a little late here --granted
but it was water pressure and gravity
that did the trick
2006-08-12 21:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
water pressure and gravity!
2006-08-12 21:55:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋