Hearing the word "fountain" we usually imagine powerful jets of water beating high up. Modern architects and engineers love to play with forms, creating ever more unusual water art objects. Some of them seem unrealistic and amaze the imagination of the audience, such as the Crane Hanging in the Air fountain. Let's study it in more detail.
The most famous "Soaring Crane"
"Magic Tap Fountain" is an attraction located on the territory of the water park in the Spanish city of Cadiz. It is believed that this is the world's first fountain "Crane hanging in the air", or "Magic" - in a literal translation into Russian. The author of this entertaining artificial source, Philip Till, wanted to surprise and amuse the guests of the aqua club. And he did it, with the original fountain today all visitors to the water park take pictures. Some of them guess his secret right away, while others look at the structure for a long time and try to understand where the water comes from in the floating tap? Almost immediately after the opening of Magic Tap Fountain, similar art objects began to appear in other cities.peace.
Where does water come from?
The Crane Hanging in the Air Fountain surprises with its daring shape and seems to violate all known laws of physics. From it, as well as from the home counterpart, a strong pressure of water beats. But we are accustomed to the fact that water enters the plumbing faucet through water pipes. And the base of the stylized fountain is “deaf” and hung in the air. Where does water come from? To solve this riddle, it is enough to see the fountain "Hanging in the air crane" in the off state.
A transparent pipe is hidden under the streams of water. It is along it that the liquid rises up in order to descend with noise in streams down. Due to the fact that the pipe is transparent, it is very difficult to notice it under jets of water. The fountain system is designed in such a way that a certain volume of liquid constantly circulates in it.
All similar attractions
The most famous fountain "Crane hanging in the air" is located in Spain, in Cadiz. This attraction quickly fell in love with tourists and very soon similar objects began to appear in other places on the globe. You can see similar fountains today in Spain: in Olivenza Park and on the island of Menorca. There are "Magic Taps" in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and the USA. Residents of Russia do not have to travel so far to see an unusual attraction. The fountain "Crane hanging in the air" is in Lazarevsky. And in Ukraine there are two of them: in Kyiv and Donetsk.
