So. Yes, it's towering, and yes, it features [t]he innovative use of an iron trough – sealed with Welsh flannel boiled in sugar and using an ox-blood mortar [which] allowed the engineers to create what remains the highest navigable aqueduct in the world.
But it's all for tourists. It just isn't practical.
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Date: Friday, 4 November 2005 08:43 pm (UTC)Well, OK. I give you:
The Llangollen Wharf Aqueduct, also known as the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
So. Yes, it's towering, and yes, it features [t]he innovative use of an iron trough – sealed with Welsh flannel boiled in sugar and using an ox-blood mortar [which] allowed the engineers to create what remains the highest navigable aqueduct in the world.
But it's all for tourists. It just isn't practical.
I personally think the German one is much cooler.