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Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel

submitted by blacklotus90

8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

7 Comments

The inner workings of the Falkirk Wheel https://youtu.be/k27gOmrDgpo

Dumdeedum says...

It's also the location of a couple of sodding great horse statues - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/The_Kelpies,_at_The_Helix,_Scotland.JPG - which I confess I still haven't got round to going and visiting.

FlowersInHisHair

Wow! This is a thing that exists? I must go and see it.

KrazyKat42 says...

Still not sure why this is better than a regular lock. Boat drives in, lock closes, upper lock opens.

Well, there's the reasons he mentioned, speed and energy to pump water, and the third reason, the water itself. Old school locks use lots of water. Since the canals don't seem to have much, if any, flow, and pumping a set of locks full of water uses a lot of it as each basin must be filled to the top just to get to the next level, it could be a serious problem to keep the canals at the proper levels with the 'regular' method. This method raises the same amount of water as it lowers (minus the boat tonnage), so there's very little taking from one channel and adding to the other.

KrazyKat42said:

Still not sure why this is better than a regular lock. Boat drives in, lock closes, upper lock opens.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/The-Falkirk-Wheel-Engineering-Marvel

The Falkirk Wheel - Engineering Marvel has been added as a related post - related requested by blackfox42.

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