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[personal profile] gfish
Tuesday, August 12th, 2003 08:16 pm
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
Tuesday, August 12th, 2003 09:47 pm (UTC)
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.)
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