Connecting Canals

Before the rise of railroads, canals provided critical commercial shipping infrastructure for many locations worldwide. But connecting canals at different elevations required locks–sometimes a whole series of them–as in the case of Scotland’s Union Canal and the Forth and Clyde Canal. In the canals’ heyday, navigating the 11 locks between them took the better part of a day–one of many reasons that canals fell out of use over time.

When Scotland decided to reconnect the canals in the 1990s, they picked a very different solution for this elevation challenge: the Falkirk Wheel. Grady walks us through the clever engineering of this impressive piece of infrastructure in this Practical Engineering video. (Video and image credit: Practical Engineering)

I’m still amazed at how they built the Brooklyn Bridge. Original watercolor drawing of the foundation construction at the Met museum.

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Interesting workplace convo yesterday re the use of LLMs (large civil engineering firm) -- basically the people with 20+ years of experience were saying yeah it works - sometimes - but it also hallucinates and takes you down the wrong road A LOT.

Those on the younger end pretty much said "well you just have to apply the right constraints" -- you just have to do it correctly, essentially.

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Three Gorges' Giant Ship Lift - Engineering That Moves the World 🏗️🚢

The ship elevator at China's Three Gorges Dam is an engineering masterpiece:

**Specs:**
🔹 Lifts vessels of several thousand tonnes
🔹 110-meter vertical height difference
🔹 Advanced hydraulics & steel systems
🔹 Logistics game-changer for river transport

#Engineering #Infrastructure #China #Logistics #CivilEngineering

Ever wonder about the engineering behind retention ponds? "Pracital Engineering" has a new video on the topic, with an shout-out to the Historic Fourth Ward park.

YouTube or Nebula:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPksDeGoh4E
https://nebula.tv/videos/practical-engineering-the-hidden-engineering-of-stormwater-ponds

#atlanta #engineering #civilengineering #video

Let's celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the iconic Menai bridge.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/31/wales-anglesey-200th-anniversary-menai-bridge?CMP=share_btn_url

Built by Thomas Telford between mainland Wales and Anglesey, while being tall enough for tall ships to sail underneath, it was a remarkable feat of civil engineering.

Thomas Telford was also the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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