Fountaineer

Fountaineer

Fountaineer is a portmanteau of "fountain" and "engineer", and describes one who designs, explores, or is passionate about fountains and their design, operation, and use.

Famous fountaineers

Notable fountaineers include:
*Dan Euser, designer of the fountains in Dundas Square (Canada's "Times Square"). Euser also designed the fountains for the World Trade Center memorial, which is the world's largest human-made waterfall.
*Jeff Chapman, the father of urban exploration. Chapman's contribution to fountaineering was to approach the subject with a sense of fun and frolic.

References

*Liz Clayton "Fountaineering", "Spacing", special issue on Water, Summer 2007, pp42-43

* [http://wiki.joshuajamesslone.name/tiki-index.php?page=Jeff%20Chapman Jeff Chapman, The man behind YIP? and Infiltration zines, urban explorer, and fountaineer.]


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