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Old fountains Old fountains, they never did much? Fountains are marvellous with colour changing lights isn't new technology wonderful? Well if you thought that's is true you would be wrong. Way back in 1909 a gentleman by the name of F.W. Darlington "opened" a fountain in Denver that had 12 jets with colour changing lights remotely controlled. So how did he do it? Its true you could not get water proof lights back then, infact electric lights were not common at all but he had a very simple but clever way of lighting a fountain using arc lights (as used in search lights) He had a pump chamber built in a lake (yes, the lake was drained) the roof of the pump chamber had what we would now call skylights built in, but these skylights were glass domes on round towers, protruding above the finished water level
The 12 jets were switched remotely by using compressed air operated valves with some one sitting on shore operating levers to change the valve sequences. It could be argued that this was the first musical fountain. You may also want to see this If you have a comment or wish to add something please use the contact us button |
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