The Distribution of Garden Water Fountains Manufacturing Knowledge in Europe

Throughout Europe, the chief means of dissiminating useful hydraulic information and fountain design suggestions were the published pamphlets and illustrated books of the time, which added to the development of scientific development. An un-named French water feature designer was an internationally renowned hydraulic leader in the later part of the 1500's. His know-how in developing gardens and grottoes with incorporated and brilliant water fountains began in Italy and with commissions in Brussels, London and Germany. The text, “The Principles of Moving Forces,” authored towards the end of his life in France, turned out to be the fundamental text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. The book modified key hydraulic breakthroughs since classical antiquity as well as describing modern day hydraulic technologies. Prominent among these works were those of Archimedes, the inventor of the water screw, a mechanized means of moving water. Sunlight heated up the water in a pair of undetectable containers adjacent to the ornamental fountain were displayed in an illustration. The end result: the useful reference fountain is triggered by the heated liquid expanding and ascending up the pipes. The book additionally includes garden ponds, water wheels, water feature creations.