The elblag boatlift is a marvelous piece of (Dutch!) 19th century engineering. The five water driven boatlifts span a height of 96 meters. This one alone manages to lift the boats 26 meters.
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The elblag boatlift is a marvelous piece of (Dutch!) 19th century engineering. The five water driven boatlifts span a height of 96 meters. This one alone manages to lift the boats 26 meters.
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Copyright 2003 Pascal Scheffers.
Dutch Engineering
I am sorry to tell you that the Elblag-boatlift ist no piece of dutch but of german engineering.
-- Gerd K. Mueller
Thats weird.The official canal museum and website list Jacob Georg Steenke as the designer and call him Dutch. Looking on the web he seems to be a prussian instead. I'm no historian, but something weird is going on here. Still stunning engineering, though.
- Pascal.
-- Pascal Scheffers