You can only love good design
I have no idea how it is that I never heard of the Falkirk Wheel… it looks to me like the sheer ingenuity, scale and novelty of this engineering beauty should by now have converted it into an icon of these, so highly mediated, times. I found about it in a total serendipitous manner, a snapshot of a Mac product in versiontracker…
I was immediately drawn to the design questions that the endeavor must have created… Just think about it, connecting two channels that run at 115 feet difference in height, how would you do it? What if somebody told you you can’t spend more than 1.5KW of electricity to operate it? Read the rest of this entry »
