Tom Scott

Tom Scott

Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel (2015x55)


: 28, 2015

The Falkirk Wheel sits between Edinburgh and Glasgow, in the southern parts of Scotland, and it's the world's only rotating boat lift. There's some very clever design going on here -- and some physics that goes all the way back to Ancient Greece.

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