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| | | Further Fuel for debate Construction News wrote an article in which it says that On the Falkirk Wheel project, the guy who designed the mechanism arrived at a brainstorming session with "a model made from his son's Lego" to show how it would work! (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate —James Stacey
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| | | | The article: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- Ensuring the gear ratio is correct Construction News 17/05/2001 Page: 22 23 Record Number: 53996 THE 35 m-high Falkirk Wheel will allow boats to enter one of two 30-m long double-walled gondolas from (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate —James Stacey
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| | | | www.minifig.co.uk/we...lego-7.jpg Dear Paul I enclose an image of the Lego model which was used by myself (and my 9 year old daughter) to develop the concept for maintaining the horizontality of the wheel. It also had a "sophisticated" lego brick (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate —James Stacey
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| | | | | err try this one www.minifig.co.uk/im...lego-7.jpg "James Stacey" <James@minifig.co.uk> wrote in message news:GHCD55.JFB@lugnet.com... (...) year (...) looked (...) hooks (...) long (...) or (...) arm, (...) as (...) always (...) the (...) turned (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | | | | | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Do you perchance have an updated link to that, I am getting a 404 trying to go to it. The entire idea of the Falkirk Wheel is totally daft. :-) I mean that as the highest sort of praise, mind you. Only in the UK would this even have been (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate —James Stacey
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| | | | oops ... shouldn't cut and paste from ftp I guess :) (URL) think no one has noticed it till now :( -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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