The Falkirk Wheel was designed to lift boats from a lower canal to an upper canal - a vertical distance of 24 meters. It does so marvelously well. Informative viddy.
It's a very elegant design. But I have to wonder what the cost justification could be for building it, in an era when canal shipping is a practically dead mode of transportation. Was this built for some kind of millennium celebration?
Faster!
It actually takes about 5 minutes for the wheel to do its job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
Excellent clip; thanks for digging this up.