g a series of electric buttons, is sometimes generated in an individual station, but and extend to lamps of both the are and incandescent when they are set up in pleasure grounds owned by street type, placed in the various pipes or funnels, through railway companies, or in cities where the… … ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN EFFECTS. spicuous. Her masts, heavy, castelated, and air the pipe is, of course, placed in a vertical bristling with guns; her tumble-home sides; position. 1f it is to form an angle, the posi- her high superstructure and numerous “tourelles,” tion is varied accordingly. As the…
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![An illustration from Architectura curiosa nova, exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta (1664)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-architecturacuri00bock-132-77.webp)
