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Re: New Civil Engineer - Lego vs Meccano debate
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Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:53:11 GMT
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oops ... shouldn't cut and paste from ftp I guess :)
http://www.minifig.co.uk/images/temp/lego-7.jpg
to think no one has noticed it till now :(
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James Stacey
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#925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.loc.uk, James Stacey writes:
> > www.minifig.co.uk/web/images/temp/lego-7.jpg
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> Do you perchance have an updated link to that, I am getting a 404 trying to
> go to it.
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> The entire idea of the Falkirk Wheel is totally daft. :-)
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> 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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