Drainage grate

The purpose of a drainage grate is to receive rainwater from the street and to deliver it to the stormwater drainage system. Before the introduction of water supply and sewerage networks as we know them today, access to water and the ability to remove pollution in cities was very difficult. There were troughs between the street and pavement, called gutters, which drained all kinds of waste poured into them by hand, as well as rain and melt water. Gutters were a source of nasty smells and a reservoir of hazardous pathogens; in the winter they would often freeze over, which made it necessary to clean them by hand. All this had a major impact on the health of city dwellers and their life expectancy. The presented objec was made in the oldest company in the Polish machine building sector. Manufacturer: Zjednoczone Fabryki Maszyn i Wagonów L. Zieleniewski, Fitzner-Gamper SA, 1928-1939 Inv. No.: MIM1371/IV-41 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA