Hello, friends. There are still many questions about whether it is possible to collect the artifacts I have described at home.
Probably, perhaps (I recall a joke about a cadet asking a question about firing a cannon around a corner). I draw this conclusion because for some time I have collected a number of photographs, where all these structures are collected quite simply and primitively, without the use of cunning metalworking technologies and geopolymer concrete. Moreover, all photos are dated from 1895 to 1910, i.e. a little more than a hundred years have passed since the photographic recording of such structures. Many readers who are over 50 (there are, oddly enough, there are many), probably in childhood communicated with people who found that time. Well, none of these people ever said that at that time there were some serious cataclysms of a planetary scale (or slightly less), thanks to which the properties of the atmosphere changed. Hence we can conclude that all such constructions have disappeared subjectively and irrationally,due to human actions due to some considerations. Well, besides all this, the photos were taken from two continents (Australia and North America), they have a large geographical spread, and from this we can also conclude that the craftsmen, collecting such structures, could not fall into childhood at the same time and did this not for landscape design, but for quite practical purposes. Well, let's see these very designs.
Adelaide, Australia, 1905 The entire city is replete with similar structures. Basically, nothing surprising if it weren't for the objects on top. On the left is an ordinary shopping pavilion, of which there were a great many at that time. On the right is a fontanel fountain for urban drinking needs. As you can see, the designs are quite simple, available for repetition by any rural locksmith with hands (except for the items at the top of the designs, about them below).
This photo shows an American ranch of the late 19th century. It would be possible not to pay attention to this photo, if in the chicken enclosure (and above it) there was not some incomprehensible iron structure (take a closer look). It doesn't look like a chicken roost. What was it all done for? This particular case can be attributed to the creative of the rancher, if not for a photo from the same series, but from a different mainland.
As you can see, here the aviary is already more serious, and above it there is already a whole structure of vertical spiers and horizontal parts. There is clearly no need to fence such a complex top for such an auxiliary-auxiliary structure. At the same time, according to many indirect sources, similar constructions were used on cages in all zoos of that time. They had a beneficial effect on animals, promoted their growth and protected them from diseases. And it was nothing more than a conventional installation for generating atmospheric electricity, almost like in temples, only greatly simplified. Yes, in fact, in agriculture another is not needed. Oddly enough, the birdcages of that time were also similar to a similar design, but in miniature. Do you think that this may be a tribute to an incomprehensible tradition or a common aesthetics? We look further.
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The photo shows an ordinary Australian house of the early 20th century. The house is like a house, but the incomprehensible design of the foreground only attracts attention. What could be easier? Four vertically standing wooden beams, between which ordinary bent steel strips are fixed, on which some kind of pipe with a cone is mounted. For those interested, this pipe is shown in an enlarged view. Apparently, this is an ordinary steel pipe, even extended in the middle. But just below it, you can clearly see a light bulb, which must have been on. The rope that is visible next to the pipe was most likely used to raise the flag. And that's all. One can admire the primitiveness of this design for a long time, but it produced light from nothing. Probably, the structures from the photos below also worked once.
Let's move on to something more complicated.
This is a drinking fountain-spring in one of the cities of Australia (it is in the main photo). Why does it need a top structure? Obviously this is not a rain canopy at all. But if you look closely, then again everything becomes very similar to the construction of springs from Bakhchisarai and other real and former Turkic-speaking countries described earlier. Everything is as old as the world. The structure above the spring is nothing more than a system for generating the same electricity, but due to its incomprehensible and unexplored properties, it draws water from the ground, due to which the water comes out of the device to a considerable height. Doubt there was electricity? You are welcome.
This is a similar spring fountain, but in America. There is a lantern on top of the fountain, which is enlarged on the right. An electric lamp is clearly visible in it, and on a scale it is the size of a human head. This could have happened if the gas was not supplied there, which is obvious?
And in conclusion, one more photo.
This is a whole exhibition of similar structures in Australia. Particular attention should be paid to the rotunda, in which the clock stands and on which the lantern stands. All the electrical wires that can be seen in the photo bypass this rotunda. Obviously, the photo was taken already when the machine generation of electricity was slowly displacing all these structures from everyday life.
It would be naive to assume that none of this was used on the farms of the Russian Empire or even did not know. Used, and no worse than in the rest of the world, only information about this comes only from ethnographic sources. All documentary archives are very well cleaned out. But actually this is not the point now.
I hope that now I have answered all those who are interested in whether it is possible to collect something like this on a personal farm. If we abstract from the legal side of the issue, then it is quite possible. If the descendants of the British collected such things, then it will not be difficult for ours.
But the whole secret of these designs lies in the very vases and cones that stand in their upper part. If anyone imagines a mercury antenna, this is it. Only in the 19th century it was not used to amplify the signal, but was received from the ether a signal, the power of which was enough to burn light bulbs, displace water or grow the muscle mass of animals. If in a nutshell and simplified, then everything looks exactly like this. Go for it.
Until next time.