Tom Scott

Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel

S5 • E55    Sep 28, 2015    2m
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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