--- title: Medieval Alhambra’s Pulser Pump And Other Aquatic Marvels description: A look at the medieval Alhambra palace's remarkable water engineering, focusing on a pulser pump design with no moving parts that may have supplied the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/medieval-alhambra-s-pulser-pump-and-other-aquatic-marvels-gka7fc1aq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Medieval Alhambra’s Pulser Pump And Other Aquatic Marvels | daily.dev og:description: A look at the medieval Alhambra palace's remarkable water engineering, focusing on a pulser pump design with no moving parts that may have supplied the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/medieval-alhambra-s-pulser-pump-and-other-aquatic-marvels-gka7fc1aq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gkA7fC1aQ.png og:image:alt: Medieval Alhambra’s Pulser Pump And Other Aquatic Marvels og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Medieval Alhambra’s Pulser Pump And Other Aquatic Marvels **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A look at the medieval Alhambra palace's remarkable water engineering, focusing on a pulser pump design with no moving parts that may have supplied the fortress with water. The pulser pump works by using falling water to drag air bubbles into a cavity, creating alternating pockets of water and air that push water uphill. Also covered is the Acequia Real aqueduct, the hydraulic ram mechanism, and the debunking of the popular myth that the Court of the Lions fountain was a time-controlled clock. Much of the original engineering knowledge has been lost, leaving researchers to reconstruct mechanisms from incomplete historical accounts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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