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gfish ([personal profile] gfish) wrote2003-08-12 08:16 pm
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Oh wow oh wow oh wow, I have a new geek tourism destination I must visit sometime: The Falkirk Wheel. A very unique and beautiful alternative to locks for moving boats up and down.

UPDATE: This site has a nice sequence of pics of the lift rotating.

UPDATE2: The second link has been fixed.
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[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2003-08-12 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
For whatever reason, a lot of barge canals in England and a few in the United States in the 1850's used elevators: gigantic bronze-lined wooden tanks on tracks that could be winched down, loaded, and up, empty. (one-way travel only.)

[identity profile] vixyish.livejournal.com 2003-08-13 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh holy SHIT. I was sitting there not parsing it, quite, and then suddenly all at once I got it. Oh wow, that's incredibly cool. If you go there without me I will never forgive you. :)

See, we can go there and do the Giant's Causeway and the wheel and all the other good stuff in one trip!

Do you know that both links in your post are the same link, though?

[identity profile] hollyking.livejournal.com 2003-08-13 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
That is pretty sweet. Thanks for the links.
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