Archimedes and a Boat Lift: the Falkirk Wheel

Tom Scott · 2.5M views · 2015 · 2:28

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Why the open web links it

Explains the engineering and physics behind the Falkirk Wheel, a rotating boat lift linking two canals.

Linked by 5 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including acm.org, xataka.com, art-beat.co.uk, carnetsdescience.xyz, jerryfahrni.com.