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The Machine de Marly (French pronunciation: [maʃin də maʁli]), also known as the Marly Machine or the Machine of Marly, was a large hydraulic system in Yvelines, France, built in 1684 to pump water from the river Seine and deliver it to the Palace of Versailles. [1] King Louis XIV needed a large water supply for his fountains at Versailles.
The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
Finally, 78 additional pumps raised the water to the aqueduct, which carried the water to Versailles and Marly. In 1685, the Machine de Marly came into full operation. However, owing to leakage in the conduits and breakdowns of the mechanism, the machine was only able to deliver 3,200 m 3 (110,000 cu ft) of water per day – approximately one ...
During the French Revolution, the building was abandoned but, in 1790, town council, which had previously been accommodated in the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble in Rue des Réservoirs, [3] decided to use it for meetings. The situation was regularised in 1823 when the state granted the council a long lease.
The main construction of Versailles took place in four campaigns between 1664 and 1710 Palace of Versailles, the building's evolution. The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in Versailles, Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region of France.
The Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon water resource near the Pacific Palisades, was under renovation and empty when fires tore through the Los Angeles neighborhood last week and ...
It pumped water to a head of 100 meters into reservoirs at Louveciennes (where Madame du Barry had her château in the 1760s). The water then flowed either to fill the cascade at Marly or drive the fountains at Versailles — the latter, after passing through an elaborate underground network of reservoirs and aqueducts. The machine could only ...
The water intakes of Hoover Dam on Lake Mead, and the "bathtub ring" behind them, show how far below its historical level the vast reservoir has fallen.