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We stopped for lunch at this lovely spot about 2 hours north of Gympie. I think there is something charming about old rusting machinery.
The Falkirk Wheel, a rotating boat lift in Scotland, which connects the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.
The boat lift is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. It opened in 2002, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s as part of the Millennium Link project.
The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission. Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight.
The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), but the Union Canal is still 11 metres (36 ft) higher than the aqueduct which meets the wheel. Boats must also pass through a pair of locks between the top of the wheel and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the Anderton boat lift.
From Wikipedia, an animation gif showing how the Falkirk Wheel ship lift works:
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The Falkirk Wheel
The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. The lift is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. It opened in 2002, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s as part of the Millennium Link project.
The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission. Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight.
The wheel raises boats by 24 metres (79 ft), but the Union Canal is still 11 metres (36 ft) higher than the aqueduct which meets the wheel. Boats must also pass through a pair of locks between the top of the wheel and the Union Canal. The Falkirk Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world, and one of two working boat lifts in the United Kingdom, the other being the Anderton boat lift.
Don't ask because we don't know either. This vintage photo was found an ancient archive, with the EXIF data suggesting that it is 2,376 years old. It is the only evidence of this vehicle's existence and we assume that it was yet another prototype from those idiots at Llwyngwril Systems.
A round bicycle rack.A competition was held on September 30th of last year and the rack design by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve from Bettlelab in Copenhagen,Denmark won first-place (and $10,000) out of 200 participants from around the world for it to be commissioned by the NYC Dept of Transportation and be the standard rack for the city's streets.The image is supposed to evoke an abstracted bicycle tire, but it looks more like a car steering wheel to me.
Lokomotivenrad (mittleres Treibrad) einer Dampflokomotive der Baureihe 01.10.
Middle driving wheel of a steam locomotive of class 01.10.
Taken during the final minutes of blue hour. Illuminated with two Godox AD200’s. An unconventional water wheel built in the days gone by stands as testimony to the brilliance of its builders.
Nikon Z6, 14mm, f/10, ISO 100