Falkirk Wheel Boat Lift

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The Falkirk Wheel, an innovative engineering project for the Millennium, is a massive boat lift that joins the different levels of the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Union Canal utilising the principles of Archimedes who discovered that a floating object displaces its own weight of water. As a result, the pods of the Wheel weigh the same with or without a boat in situ, allowing for perfect balance at all times.

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Size: 4256px × 2831px
Location: Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Eric Begbie / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: archimedes, attraction, barge, boat, britain, british, canal, canals, clyde, engineer, engineering, falkirk, floating, fort, innovative, junction, lift, millennium, project, scotland, scottish, steel, steelwork, stirlingshire, tourism, tourist, uk, wheel