What’s the Deal with the Falkirk Wheel?
Some of the hidden details behind this very cool piece of infrastructure.
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The Falkirk Wheel didn’t just reconnect two canals. It reconnected people with the idea that infrastructure can be both useful and pretty cool.
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Practical Engineering
Grady Hillhouse is a professional civil engineer and hobbyist everything else in San Antonio, Texas. Randall Munroe said, "You can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think, Some engineer was frustrated while designing this. I...