The Falkirk Wheel

One of the truly great things from my old homeland. In the year 2000 Falkirk invented the wheel...

I love that the designer used Lego to demonstrate the mechanism to funders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel#/media/File:Falk...

If the area was a major commercial shipping hub once, what's the reason it isn't any more? Depopulation? (If it's depopulation, then was it emigration or was it a fall in birth rates?)

It's amazing! But sad to hear of the vandalism that caused significant damage:

https://www.gentles.info/link/Vandals/vandals.html

It's like one of those equations where everything cancels out nicely.

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/11/17/the-hidden-eng...

YouTube version: https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/11/17/the-hidden-eng...

I live very near to it, in the summer they have boat trips that take people a trip on one of the two passenger boats.

The kelpies are connected via the canal, maybe 4 miles of locks you have to go through if you want to hire a canal boat to travel from the wheel to the kelpies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kelpies