Take a Ride on the Falkirk Wheel | A Lunchtime Webinar with the ASCE Reading Branch

When:  Feb 19, 2026 from 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM (ET)
Associated with  Philadelphia Section

The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift in Falkirk, central Scotland.  It connects the Forth & Clyde Canal (1790) with the Union Canal (1822).  The Falkirk area was the cradle of Scotland’s Industrial Revolution in the 18th century.  It was the earliest major center of the iron-casting industry.  James Watt cast some of the beams for his early steam engine designs at the Carron Works in 1765. The difference in height between the two canals was 115 ft and required a series of 11 locks.  Each run took most of a day to pass through the flight of locks.

When the Falkirk Wheel opened in 2002, it reconnected the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.  The Wheel is the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world.

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