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Uli Senior Member Registered: September 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 146	www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk
	· Date: September-18-2002 · Views: 5763 · Tags: 1 · Filesize: 14.7kb ·
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Willallison

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Registered: October 2001
Location: Australia
Posts: 3,502

September-27-2002 2:26am

surely one of the most extraordinary and exciting pieces of inland waterway engineering ever to be built.....

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Uli
Senior Member

Registered: September 2001
Location: Germany
Posts: 146

September-27-2002 4:28pm

It's not racing and it's not carbon and not wood, but it's certainly about water and definitely about spectacular and efficient engineering. Built in the spirit of Brunel, the new Falkirk Wheel links two major Victorian canals. Rotation takes seven minutes and each cycle uses about the power of two boils of a kettle...

That is a hall of engeneeringwork and I deeply adore it.

More information :http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/

glasbotomboat
Junior Member

Registered: November 2002
Location: Cleveland, OH
Posts: 17

November-19-2002 10:14am

Rating: 8

For the first American comment in the american vernacular: This kicks some serious engineering *** !!! As an inventor, I'm always impressed more by raw design prowess instead of new ideas that rely on new, current technology - i.e. - this could have been done fifty years ago.

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