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Finding craft- Old’s cool- Fountains

A few facts and history on fountains 

Before you found fountains in parks and your therapists office being used purely for decorative purposes they actually had a function and were connected to aqueducts and springs to provide water for drinking and bathing to populated areas.

The first people to use fountains for decorative proposes were the Romans, even though they were still used for drinking/ bathing they were also clad with bronze masks, animals and mythological heroes in celebration of the builders in their society.

These days fountains are generally decorative pieces and instead of relying on gravity to ensure they worked they now can me placed anywhere with the help of small electric pumps inside them cycling the water from the bottom to the top.

Finding craft- Old’s cool- Street lights

Some history and facts about street lights

Some of the earliest examples of street lighting were in Peking around 500BC were they used bamboo to lead volcanic gases into their streets to be used as fuel street lamps.

The first electric street lamp named the Yablochkov candle, was implemented in Paris in 1878 and over the next 12 years began to replace about 4000 of the gas lanterns that were in use.

These days street lamps use incandescent bulbs in what they call high intensity discharge lamps since they are cheeper to make and emitted a brighter light, but even now the city of Melbourne are rolling out LED bulbs for their street lamps.