How Does This Wheel Lift Boats? | The Falkirk Wheel

A boat enters a tank of water. Then the entire tank leaves the canal. Scotland’s Falkirk Wheel lifts boats while keeping them afloat and level. But why doesn’t a boat make one side heavier? Discover the engineering behind this extraordinary rotating boat lift. HOW THIS EXISTS Impossible-looking. Completely real. #HowThisExists #Engineering #FalkirkWheel VISUAL CREDITS “FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean.jpg” — Sean Mack, CC BY 2.5. “Falkirk Wheel Moving 2.jpg” — Sean Mack, public domain. Photos cropped, colour graded and animated. Additional imagery includes AI visual re-creations, identified on screen, and original explanatory diagrams. Diagrams are simplified and not to scale. RESEARCH Institution of Civil Engineers: Scottish Canals: