Video: Incredible Hydraulic Gauze Machine with 133 Years of Experience
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Even today, this hydraulic engineering device (it survived to ours) would inspire respect for its scale. And for the 17th century it was a truly fantastic mechanism. The Marly Machine got its name from the Marly Palace, next to which it was built by the Dutch architect Renneken Sualem, an architect and innovator. The customer for this unique design was Louis XIV himself, and the purpose of the device was to supply water to the Versailles Park with its fountains and ponds.
The construction of the installation was started in 1681 and completed in 1684. On June 16, the "machine" began its work: it raised water from the Seine to a height of one hundred and sixty meters and a distance from the river about five kilometers to the "Marly basin". And then, through a specially made aqueduct eight km long, water was supplied to the Versailles Park.
The most ambitious structure included fourteen twelve-meter wheels, which drove two hundred twenty-one water pumps (sixty-four were located below, seventy-nine and seventy-eight were located at two water intake wells). They provided the supply of about two hundred cubic meters of water per hour.
Eighty-five tons of wood, seventeen of iron, and eight hundred and fifty tons of lead and copper were used in the construction. About two thousand people were involved in the grandiose construction, and sixty employees of the "Society for the Water Supply of Versailles" were engaged in further maintenance of the device.
The car turned out to be grandiose, super-expensive, noisy and breaks down quite often. Nevertheless, in this form, according to the original idea, the "Marley Machine" worked for one hundred and thirty-three years! In 1800, a plan for the reconstruction of the hydroelectric system appeared, which was never implemented. Instead, in 1817, it was disassembled and replaced with the Cecil and Martin steam device, then (in 1859) with the Dufre installation, and in 1968 electric pumps appeared, which power the Versailles Park to this day.
From the unique installation (which the artists of the 19th century loved to depict), very little has survived to this day: a water pavilion, an extension by the Seine, and residential buildings for technical staff.
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