No tips for little brother re: working water fountains? Heh.
I was going to say much the same as what Selena ended up saying: there isn't one answer for working fountains. It's an engineering problem that depends on the local topography. And my impression is that Fritz put Sanssouci in a place where getting vertical water was a hard problem, not solvable until some technological innovations came along in the mid-19th century.
Even big-budget Versailles had working fountains only *some* of the time.
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Date: 2021-07-21 12:07 am (UTC)I was going to say much the same as what Selena ended up saying: there isn't one answer for working fountains. It's an engineering problem that depends on the local topography. And my impression is that Fritz put Sanssouci in a place where getting vertical water was a hard problem, not solvable until some technological innovations came along in the mid-19th century.
Even big-budget Versailles had working fountains only *some* of the time.