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Image of the day – 7

The rotation takes 10 minutes which seems rather slow, but it’s actually a great deal faster than passing through a series of eleven locks

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). It might be a photo I took, an image from Wikipedia, NASA, or some other open source, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

The famous Falkirk Wheel

The Falkirk Wheel is a boat lift in Scotland that replaced a set of eleven canal locks. Here it holds a tourist boat full of passengers, it must be an extraordinary experience to rotate between the upper and lower levels in a boat floating in a short section of canal.

The rotation takes 10 minutes which seems rather slow, but it’s actually a great deal faster than passing through a series of eleven locks.

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