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2. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, or operate on an inclined plane, like the Ronquières inclined plane in ...

3. Crank (mechanism) - Wikipedia

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   Crank (mechanism) Hand crank for a winch on a sailboat - commonly referred to as a winch handle. A crank is an arm attached at a right angle to a rotating shaft by which circular motion is imparted to or received from the shaft. When combined with a connecting rod, it can be used to convert circular motion into reciprocating motion, or vice versa.

4. Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia

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   A timelapse from inside a boat. The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.

5. Shiplift - Wikipedia

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   Shiplift. A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a floating dry dock or a graving dry dock. A shiplift is used to dry dock and launch ships. It consists of a structural platform that is lifted and lowered exactly vertically, synchronously by a number of hoists. First, the platform is lowered underwater, then the ship is floated above ...

6. List of How It's Made episodes - Wikipedia

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   Boat radar mounts European-style radiators: 31-09 399 Cotton: Rodeo roping chutes: Asian noodles: Rotary engines: June 2, 2018 31-10 400 Sleeper rigs: Pecans: Steel pulleys: Acetate eyewear: 31-11 401 Wood slat baskets Bells: Gyroscopic stabilizers: November 3, 2018 31-12 402 DeLorean restoration Bison fibre Shuffleboard tables Friction-forged ...

7. Abraham Lincoln's patent - Wikipedia

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   May 22, 1849. Location. Illinois. Abraham Lincoln's patent relates to an invention to buoy and lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river. Abraham Lincoln conceived the invention when on two occasions the boat on which he traveled got hung up on obstructions. Lincoln's device was composed of large bellows attached to the sides of a boat ...