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Scottish Innovation

This isn't new, but I'd never seen it before, and figured that many of my readers hadn't either. The world's only rotating canal lock. There's more info at the usual source, of course. It's a pretty clever design.

 
 

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Habitat Hermit wrote:

Haven't been there but saw it in action on Discovery channel, very elegant and efficient, somehow reminds me a bit of the dutch wind-powered walking sculptures of Theo Jansen.

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