A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31240-1 (ISBN)
In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Chaim Shulman presents an analysis of three projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s–1610s. The technical and economic differences between these projects resulted from external conditions not directly related to the water supply problem. Although the same basic technology was apparently available at the time in all cases, the geographical, engineering, entrepreneurial and cultural nature of each region differed. The inhabitants’ wellbeing improvement achieved varied accordingly. Much broader insights are drawn on the policies of the three monarchies regarding the initiative of and support for grand scale public works in general.
Jaime-Chaim Shulman, Ph.D. (History, 2015), Tel-Aviv University, is a graduate of Harvard Business School and an Electromechanical engineer from Buenos Aires University. As an accomplished businessman and executive, he contributes a fresh approach to the study of urban public works.
Abbreviations, Date Conventions and Notes
List of Figures Included in the Text
Introduction
The Subject of Our Research
Mechanical’ Engineers and Know-How Migration
1 Human Water Consumption in England, France and Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
2 Water-lifting Technology in the Graeco-Roman World and Its Development through the Renaissance
The Invention of Water-lifting Devices
The Use of Water-lifting Devices in the Roman Era
Islamic Technological Influence
The Diffusion of the Waterwheel in Europe
The Improvement of Water Lifting Technology in Europe, Evolution or Quantum Leaps?
Basic Water Raising Technologies
Direct Water-lifting with Compartmented Waterwheels
Archimedean Screws
Ctesibius’ Double-Acting Force Pumps
Theatres of Machines
Complex Water Lifting Configurations Relevant to the Present Study
Water-Raising Machines at Atmospheric Pressure
Transmission of Power through Distances
Waterwheels Sensitivity to Variations in the Level of the River Flow
Piping Networks
The Diffusion of False Know-How
The Italian Strategy—Gravity Based Solutions
3 Toledo
Spain and Toledo in the 1560s
Early Attempts to Supply Water to Toledo
Water Supply to Toledo in the Sixteenth Century
Juanelo Turriano
The Artificio
Iconographic Representations and Exact Location of the Artificio Building
The Artificio’s Technology—The Operational Principle
Escosura y Beck—The Inclined Plane Theory
The Vertical Solution, Proposed by Ladislao Reti
Juan Luis Peces Ventas’ Improvement of the Inclined Plane Theory
Nicolás García Tapia’s Proposition
Francesc Xavier Jufre García’s Concept: Operating Valturio Scales
Unanswered Technical Questions
Technical Conclusions
The Artificio, as Seen by Contemporary Writers
The Ingenio of Juan Fernández del Castillo
Land Reclamation and Sewerage in Spain
The Spanish Attitude Towards Science and Technology during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
4 London
Tudor London in the 1580s
Early Attempts to Provide the City with a Water Supply System
The Elizabethan Patent System
Peter Morris
The London Bridge Waterworks in Contemporary Sources
Technical Operation
Supporting Evidence for Bate’s Interpretation of Morris’ Operational Principle
The External Appearance of the London Waterworks
The Consequences of the Installation of Waterwheels on the London Bridge
The Later Development of the London Bridge Waterworks
Other Initiatives
The New River
Competition between the Different Water Suppliers
Land Reclamation and Sewerage in England
5 Paris
Government and Municipal Authorities—Paris Administration and Development in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
History of Former Water Supply Undertakings
La Samaritaine
The Operational Principle of La Samaritaine
Description of the Original Samaritaine Building in Contemporary Travelogues
Depictions of the Original Building of La Samaritaine in Maps and Views of Paris
The Samaritaine Building after its Renovation in 1714
Additional Initiatives to Solve the Water Problem in the Seventeenth Century
Pumps at Pont Notre Dame
The Machine at Marly
Land Reclamation and Sewerage in France
6 Conclusions
Sources and Bibliography
Sources
Studies
Websites
Online Sources for Retrieved Images
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Technology and Change in History ; 14 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 778 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-31240-4 / 9004312404 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-31240-1 / 9789004312401 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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