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Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:10:33 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, James Stacey writes:
> www.minifig.co.uk/web/images/temp/lego-7.jpg
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 tried, much less actually made to work. Isembard Kingdom
Brunel would have been proud, I am sure of it.
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> 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 attachment which looked
> at the idea of a water driven wheel using ballast tanks in the form of hooks
> at the end of each arm.
> best regards
> Tony Kettle
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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> (...) (22 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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