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2. Wallace fountain - Wikipedia

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   They were made of cast iron. Inexpensive, easy to mold, and robust, it was one of the most popular materials of the age. The majority of the cost was paid for by Wallace. The city of Paris allocated 1,000 francs for the large model and 450 francs for the wall-mounted model. The fountains are still molded by the historical foundry G.H.M

3. Gerald D. Hines Waterwall Park - Wikipedia

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   Plaque describing the Water Wall. The architects' design for the Waterwall was to be a "horseshoe of rushing water" opposite the Transco (now Williams) Tower. The semi-circular fountain is 64 feet (20 m) tall, to symbolize the 64 stories of the tower, and sits among 118 Texas live oak trees. The concave portion of the circle, which faces north ...

4. Drinking fountain - Wikipedia

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   Drinking fountains are an important source of clean water in urban infrastructure. [3] [4] [5] Many jurisdictions require drinking fountains to be wheelchair accessible (by sticking out horizontally from the wall), and to include an additional unit of a lower height for children and short adults. The design that this replaced often had one ...

5. Salsabil (fountain) - Wikipedia

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   The water flows in a manner designed to maximize the surface area, and thus evaporation. A salsabil may be a near-vertical marble waterfall mounted on a wall, [4] or the sheet of water may flow down a slanted chute. [3] Evaporative cooling causes the water and the surrounding air to cool as some of the water evaporates.

6. Cascading Waterfall - Wikipedia

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   Cascading Waterfall was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1994. The fountain, reminiscent of 16th century Italian villas, focuses primarily on thirteen large semi-circular basins forming a water cascade that overlooks the historic park. The fountains are the largest of their kind in the United ...

7. Drumheller Fountain - Wikipedia

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   Drumheller Fountain is predated by a pond similar in design and location known as Geyser Basin, which was built for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.During the fair, the fountain was the centerpiece of a formal garden extending onto the Rainier Vista, adorned with a geometric layout, roses enclosed by Japanese barberry, and a carpet of 80,000 English daisies.