Perhaps you could take a series of photographs to show us how it works?
I'd be interested.
Charles
Donald MacDonald wrote:
Ah, the famous Falkirk Wheel. It's a boat lift.
Two canals meet in our neighbourhood, the Union Canal and the Forth
and Clyde Canal. They fell into disuse during the 20th century, and
with the rise of the car they became disjointed as bits were filled
in, or bridges lowered, to make way for roads.
As part of the Millenium celebrations the canals have been restored to
leisure use, allowing navigation along their full lengths.
Problem at Falkirk was the lack of locks, which had carried boats from
the lower Forth and Clyde up to the higher Union. The Falkirk Wheel is
the answer. Each trip uses only the equivalent electricity of boiling
two kettles, and almost no water is lost.
Boats enter the wheel (top or bottom), which is then rotated (takes
about seven minutes), carrying the boat, still afloat, to the other
canal, via the basin visible beyond the wheel. In a sense it operates
exactly like a system of locks, but more spectacularly. It's actually
quite beautiful.
Photo was taken, hand-held, on a 35RD. Ilford Delta 100 @ ISO 100,
1/250 on Auto. Red Hoya filter. Scanned on an Acer Scanwit 2720S at
2700/48-bit high quality. In Photoshop I made a levels layer, darkened
the sky to match the negative, then restored the rest of the detail
with dodging.
www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/
Thanks for the comments!
D.
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