Lifting Boats Efficiently

By Anupum Pant

The fallkirk wheel in Scotland is probably one of the engineering’s most ingenious designs. It is the world’s only rotating boat lift. It is a massive piece of equipment which harnesses the basic laws of physics to drastically reduce the energy input used to lift boats from one canal to another, 80 feet up. Tom Scott explains…

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