Ok, check this thing out. It's called a Boat Lift. But it's not just any boat lift. It's the Falkirk Wheel!
This thing is insane. Whoever designed it was a genious and an artist all in one. Beacuse both tanks (top and bottom) hold the same amount of water, and because a boat displaces its weight by volume, they are perfectly balanced.
Which means that it takes very little power to lift a boat 24 metres up to the canal!
Oh, man is it beautiful...
The wheel in action...
Sorry, I'm an engineer...
-Tom Tom out
![[Wings]](http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/3115/245154636135262/220/315632/gse_multipart9474.jpg)
3 comments:
It looks very funky, i wish i could see it in action where is the web site u found the pics on. Just to gat my head around how it works.
haha thats awesome, where is it?
The boat lift is in Falkirk, Scotland.
I found it on Wikipedia and there's more photos there.
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