While I appreciate all the work that went in to the production of this video, to me, there was left a big question. What about the sluice gates? How do they work, design etc...?
Waitt... i read some article this concept are got inspiration from Chinese civilization.. the biggest and long human made canal are till here still in china..
it's interesting that academia likes harping on his art and political patronage to the ruling families, his war machines and concept flying contraptions, but they never talk about his enduring practical and essential inventions we still use daily. it's almost like they want to relegate him to the past, instead of embracing his contributions to the level of einstein or newton, when in reality he contributed much more to how we live our everyday life than they did
I live near one of the canals that Leonardo designed in the 15th century. They still have dams placed where he wanted them to be. He was such a great genius.
My dad did maintenance on the Panama canal and told me the motors to swing the lock gates were not powerful. He said the gates were so well balanced that a man could open and close them. The powerful unit was the mule engine that pulled the ship through the locks. The big maintenance item is keeping the upper part of the canal dedged
Cap. Back in the Panamá days. Your dad was the lead singer for the band "El Chombo", then he worked as a bodyguard for Gran Papi for a while.... Later on he became a stunt double in the 80's hit show miami vice.
Used extensively in UK canals during the industrial revolution his idea turned into practical use and used in the Panama canal today, and still nothing as effective and simple to build (simple compared to rising and falling gates) he was an incredible man
Bruh the Chinese invented this type of mitre lock about 300 years before da Vinci was born. It was used in China's Grand Canal. No idea why this channel is ignoring that.
@@adamg2960 Because they didn't. The chinese invented the pound lock, they did not invent the mitre lock. That is, they were the fist to have a canal with two doors on either end of a chambre used to raise or lower the water level. The chinese used hanging gates 300 years before the birth of Da vinci, these were shown as the "old" gates in the video. The difference is that the mitre lock is a pound lock that uses.... a mitre gate. Saying the chinese invented the mitre lock is like saying the wright brothers invented the passenger jet. A jet is a type of plane, but a plane is not necessarily a jet. The wright brothers invented the plane, not the jet. (yes, there is a bit of dispute, some claim others had the first flight, but you get my point) Now, Da Vinci is not confirmed to be the inventor of the mitre lock. But most historians agree it originated from italy. Bertola da Novate is an italian engineer who is sometimes considered a contender for it's invention. There are no sources that give any reason to believe it was invented in china that I am aware of. If you have sources that give any reason to believe mitre gates were invented in china, please add them One unfortunate thing that may mislead people is that because miter gates are standard nowadays, most graphics depicting pound locks use mitre gates. This means if an article is writing about, lets say, the invention of pound gates, if they don't bother creating their own graphics they will likely simply reuse another graphic of how pound locks work that include miter locks. A good example is the wikipedia page for the Grand Canal. They use two graphics of pound locks utilizing miter gates to show how pound locks work. While these graphics give a good view of how pound locks work, they include features that were added hundreds of years later. These graphics are accurate to how the locks work on the Grand Canal work today, but not how they worked 300 years before da vinci. That canal was improved over the years
Sluice valves are mentioned once but never explained. It's as if you think their particular design mechanism is too obvious to explain. But how do they stay watertight? If they are part of the gates, how are they opened from the canal bank? Opening them against strong water pressure must be difficult too. If not, why not?
Great Video, superb animation and narration. It is amazing to think how the geniuses come up with such great designs and many engineers perfect it over time.
Indus valley civilization of Dholavira In Gujrat, India It has the same port system invented in 3rd BCE...used to increase and decrease the amount of water and locking it in ports during tides. ✨ (Edit-A slight mistake It was Lothal which had water locking system in Port and Dholavira had water locking dam system for water Storage.)
The Chinese invented this same design in the Song dynasty in the 10th century, about 300 years before da Vinci was born. Just search up on China's Grand Canal, which still works to this day.
@@adamg2960 China also invented water. Before that, everyone died of dehydration shortly after birth. They also invented lying about inventing everything.
I just randomly came across this channel with this first video. It seems like those simple informative videos that were made in the early 2000's that I was shown as a kid, It is much appreciated!
@@iuer4643 true, although the Panama canal uses pipes to transport excess water to a reservoir they can use to pump water into the chambers for future use
I have been around miter lock operations most of my life and have yet to see one that is watertight, no matter the level on the upstream side. It is theoretically possible, of course, with the right sealing materials installed, but in practice, that free joint in the middle is not constructed _that_ perfectly no matter how much pressure is applied. The leakage is generally not significant, so it is still the most useful design, but It is a very different construction type than, say, a precision airlock on a space capsule.
yeah watertight is a bit of a superfluous detail. truly watertight mostly comes down to a matter of maintenance since a soft rubber could seal completely but would require regular replacement since every time the join flexes under the pressure cracking and wear also grows in the material. The real trick is that the pressure on that joint is able to be so large you can use quite hard materials as the seal (such as steel or other metals) which have much more favourable wear characteristics compared to most water sealing materials. The pressure also helps to reduce tolerances for things like squareness of the two doors and surface roughness at the joint (though they do still have a pretty tight tolerance for straightness at the meeting edge and parallelness of the two meeting faces) In leonardo's time of course they didn't have so many options for materials and the only options for a water seal for that use case would have been wood or a soft metal like copper which means high pressure joints were the only option available to stop a notable leak. Nowadays most locks play with the wiggle room that a small leak is perfectly tolerable in their use case and so they leverage that to reduce maintenance costs meaning most do still let some water through
Question, you miss something, how do you open the sloose gate and close it again once the water at equal height? What if the water was too deep? Do the operator has to dive to close the small sloose door again? I'm asking about the manual medieval version.
I was wondering the exact same thing, he just quickly glanced through that part. The same hydrostatic pressures that would make it impossible to open the doors would also make it impossible to open the valves?
@@drworm5007 These systems always have a small amount of leakage, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't amount to much more than a dripping faucet in a bathtub. It is of virtually no consequence to a system that pumps such massive amounts of water.
It's so interesting when people find ways to use natural forces against itself. There was a relatively new invention just recently, it's basically a sturdy piece of plastic shape like an L, long end face down, so when water goes over it, the weight of the water will push the long side down, forcing the shorter end to stay up and using gravity to create a very strong barrier for water. They use it as an emergency barrier to block areas from flooding, since they stack nicely and are easy to deploy, like traffic cones. Better than sandbags, and at a fraction of the weight, plus much less time spent setting it up instead of digging a ditch or piling dirt.
When opening the gates, it seems all the pressure is going against opening the gate. The sluice gates don't get as much resistance because: -They're smaller: less surface means less force resisting it -They have to move less distance -Pressure won't be that detrimental to the gates. One part of them opens towards the water, which will be resisted. However, the other part of the gate moves AWAY from the water flow, so it's actually assisted by the water.
I've lived in several places along the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. I can walk to one of them in 5 minutes. Most of those locks operate on these same principles, taking into account modernization of machinery and maintenance. It is a 386 km route with 45 locks. Also it's through some of the prettiest scenery available in central Ontario. The same can be said for the Rideau Canal system locations. That one is just over 200 km in total, using 29 locks. Because they are no longer of use by commercial boating, and are for recreational boating, the staff are super accommodating to explain how everything works. It's simpler than I first imagined. Brilliant use of the water to do the work.
Leonardo da Vinci was a genus. I can be creative, but he takes it to a whole new level. Practical thinking. Did you know that he even made the first robot? It was like a car that would wind up. He could program it do a set of commands as it moved along. Simple pre-loaded commands like. Going down 50 feet. Turn right and go down 20 and so on. He used ropes that were cut to lengths that would correspond with the distance he wanted it to move. It was all fascinating.
how is it made water tight on thje sea floor? Wouldnt all the crud along the bottom cause the door to be jammed, requireing it to be lifted from there?
Great video. I am wondering if water flows both sides like in panama canal during tide differences, would nt the water pulls it open? I think better design was diamond lock (2 mitre gates facing each other - like that 2 sets forming a levelling chamber in between) instead 2 parallel parallel mitre gates. (Your suggestions are most welcome, as an Irrigation engineer I confused whether to go ahead with a two mitre locks or diamond lock for a proposed site)
The gate paddles (that's what they're called) are on the upper side or inside the gates so they can be sealed by the water pressure. They're tiny compared to the gates so lifting them to let the water through is a trivial task compared to operating the big gate.
You don't need to go to the Panama canal to see this. The nearest modern style canal will suffice. Here in Sweden some 10 km:s north of me, we have Göta canal: only a minor tourist canal, indeed, but every lock is of this type.
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I think it would be the grand "calculation" of the universe. But do the ven diagram, you are also a part of the millions still living, so you put yourself in the awkward math situation of your life worth in a contradictory position. By living, you have a worth by the very nature. ipsofacto.
It's used in Northern Germany, Danmark and the Netherland in the creation of new lamd from the sea. Your main problem when living under the sea level is what you do with rain water since it can't flow out. It's possible though with the tidal range with this doors you let the water flow out in ebb and stop the water when it flows back when the flood comes. It's also the way to get the land dry in the first place.
This was great to watch and da Vinci was certainly a gifted artist, engineer, etc. During the video I got a memory trigger of something else that always intrigued me in terms of achieving a water-tight seal in order to hold back a large body of water. That is, the door/seal system on a dock, or dry-dock, to be precise. We've all seen a picture of a vessel in a dry-dock under construction, or in for maintenance, cleaning, etc. Here, the fluid dynamics seem in contrast to that of a river flow, pushing against the angled gate faces, using the flow force to achieve the seal (as shown in the video). Instead, the sea is 'flat' against the dock gate. How is this achieved safely and reliably, anyone? Thanks.
How do you make sure the doors close at the same time? It seems like if they didn’t meet each other at the right angle and time then they would be folded the wrong direction
Probably because of the steps. They can't go further back than they're supposed to, so even if one door was closing faster, it would stop at the build-in step and the other door will thus aling perfectly.
I travel the Trent/Severn waterways each summer . This was built in between 1830 and 1901 . They still use this style of gate. They can leak on occasion but solid. They change out the timbers when needed ,but really an amazing feat of engineering
simple yet brilliant. Unfortunately I don't think we can have renaissance men like Leonardo anymore, as the human knowledge have become so great, that no single human can know it all
NO, it is possible; you have fallen into the trap of thinking that you must hyperspecialize. You could easily become an engineer that researches physics that paints masterful paintings and makes life like sculptures. I, for one, have taught myself a bunch of musical instruments, drawing and painting, and physics & mathematics Sounds like you just want an excuse to not try to become a master of such things
@@pyropulseIXXI what I am saying is that it is impossible to be a master of all. One can be a master of one thing and good of many, but the world is so complex now that we need to specialise if we want to truly master anything, and only the brightest of the bright can even do that
Neither was Leonardo master of all. What made Leonardo different is that he was not yet subject to the division of labor and hyperspecialization that now governs society. His intellectual ability was that of similar people in his position. Polymaths weren't that uncommon during the peak of the Italian Renaissance as the Nobility, the Church and Merchants were all in constant struggle to control society and thus neither ultimately controlled it fully. This allowed sufficiently wealthy people to study and practice as they saw fit or needed rather than prostitute themselves to one particular task for the benefit of one of these sectors for the rest of their lives. We could have Renaissance men again without much issue, the point of technology and knowledge is that it ultimately makes people more productive than the generations prior. You don't need to reinvent the gear or deduce Archimedes' law from scratch. Leonardo took a lifetime to reach his peak in art and material science because he had to collect that knowledge through experience and collecting rare books. Nowadays it only takes a few years for someone to match him, granted one has the resources, time and access to knowledge to do it, which is rare. The promise of the industrial revolution and the Renaissance were that. No longer would you have to dedicate most of your life to tending to your crops as a peasant or serving your guild master as an apprentice. Mechanization would mean less work hours and more studying to improve society further. Unfortunately, the rulers simply saw mechanization as a way to make their lifestyle cheaper and more plentiful.
@@siraethelwulf8914 I am not sure completely what thy point is. Was it that powers were divided between multiple factions back then and today its not? Because we may call them something else but it is still basically the nobility (old money) the merchant (new money) and the church (moral crusaders) who are in charge. Is it that there aren't people with the resources to just dedicate their lives to studying different subjects, because we have plenty of that. We don't even have to be rich anymore. Its just, most choose to spend their leisure time watching tv or writing dumb comments on youtube (I am referring mostly to myself here) then they are to pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Because that is why I think we can't have polymaths anymore, a polymath is someone who is an expert, someone who have contributed something important to human knowledge in several fields. A Renaissance man is different from being a jack of all trade, because a Renaissance man is a master in many crafts, while a jack of all trades are competent in many but master in none
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While I appreciate all the work that went in to the production of this video, to me, there was left a big question. What about the sluice gates? How do they work, design etc...?
Waitt... i read some article this concept are got inspiration from Chinese civilization.. the biggest and long human made canal are till here still in china..
Tgn
it's interesting that academia likes harping on his art and political patronage to the ruling families, his war machines and concept flying contraptions, but they never talk about his enduring practical and essential inventions we still use daily. it's almost like they want to relegate him to the past, instead of embracing his contributions to the level of einstein or newton, when in reality he contributed much more to how we live our everyday life than they did
This is kids level yes?
I live near one of the canals that Leonardo designed in the 15th century. They still have dams placed where he wanted them to be. He was such a great genius.
You've been such a great educator over the years, it's time to give something back so you can keep teaching others into the future
My dad did maintenance on the Panama canal and told me the motors to swing the lock gates were not powerful. He said the gates were so well balanced that a man could open and close them. The powerful unit was the mule engine that pulled the ship through the locks. The big maintenance item is keeping the upper part of the canal dedged
Cap.
Back in the Panamá days.
Your dad was the lead singer for the band "El Chombo", then he worked as a bodyguard for Gran Papi for a while.... Later on he became a stunt double in the 80's hit show miami vice.
@@deontaywallaceescalade bro did his research
@@deontaywallaceescalade who was my dad
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@@deontaywallaceescalade LMAO Wtf
Used extensively in UK canals during the industrial revolution his idea turned into practical use and used in the Panama canal today, and still nothing as effective and simple to build (simple compared to rising and falling gates) he was an incredible man
Bruh the Chinese invented this type of mitre lock about 300 years before da Vinci was born. It was used in China's Grand Canal. No idea why this channel is ignoring that.
@@adamg2960 Because they didn't. The chinese invented the pound lock, they did not invent the mitre lock. That is, they were the fist to have a canal with two doors on either end of a chambre used to raise or lower the water level. The chinese used hanging gates 300 years before the birth of Da vinci, these were shown as the "old" gates in the video.
The difference is that the mitre lock is a pound lock that uses.... a mitre gate. Saying the chinese invented the mitre lock is like saying the wright brothers invented the passenger jet. A jet is a type of plane, but a plane is not necessarily a jet. The wright brothers invented the plane, not the jet. (yes, there is a bit of dispute, some claim others had the first flight, but you get my point)
Now, Da Vinci is not confirmed to be the inventor of the mitre lock. But most historians agree it originated from italy. Bertola da Novate is an italian engineer who is sometimes considered a contender for it's invention. There are no sources that give any reason to believe it was invented in china that I am aware of. If you have sources that give any reason to believe mitre gates were invented in china, please add them
One unfortunate thing that may mislead people is that because miter gates are standard nowadays, most graphics depicting pound locks use mitre gates. This means if an article is writing about, lets say, the invention of pound gates, if they don't bother creating their own graphics they will likely simply reuse another graphic of how pound locks work that include miter locks. A good example is the wikipedia page for the Grand Canal. They use two graphics of pound locks utilizing miter gates to show how pound locks work. While these graphics give a good view of how pound locks work, they include features that were added hundreds of years later. These graphics are accurate to how the locks work on the Grand Canal work today, but not how they worked 300 years before da vinci. That canal was improved over the years
@@adamg2960 holy crap, you got absolutely destroyed by Waldo himself
@@alicorn3924woe to the man waldo _wants_ to find him.
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Sluice valves are mentioned once but never explained. It's as if you think their particular design mechanism is too obvious to explain. But how do they stay watertight? If they are part of the gates, how are they opened from the canal bank? Opening them against strong water pressure must be difficult too. If not, why not?
@Rohan Nampalliwar what he ask was, what is the machanism of sluice valve (1:40) and how can sluice valve can be opened while inside the water?
@Rohan Nampalliwar except the sluice valve. How does it work?
Thank you, I had the exact same question.
@Rohan Nampalliwar So the sluice valve is a modern solution, not Leonardo Da Vinci part of miter lock design.
Those valves can work if they were to slide down perpendicular to the direction of the force of the water.
Great Video, superb animation and narration. It is amazing to think how the geniuses come up with such great designs and many engineers perfect it over time.
Thank you for your kind words!
@@SabinCivil was the warping problem experiences by engineers here
@@chaalakchatur8533 warping? Is the material of the gate inconsistent?
It's amazing how da Vinci stopped flow of water using its own pressure
It works like a reverse aerodynamics.
Hydrodynamic
Indus valley civilization of Dholavira In Gujrat, India It has the same port system invented in 3rd BCE...used to increase and decrease the amount of water and locking it in ports during tides. ✨
(Edit-A slight mistake It was Lothal which had water locking system in Port and Dholavira had water locking dam system for water Storage.)
@@anishdesai7303can u please post the link of the source information ,i want to know more... Unbelievable if it's true.. Thank you..
The Chinese invented this same design in the Song dynasty in the 10th century, about 300 years before da Vinci was born. Just search up on China's Grand Canal, which still works to this day.
@@adamg2960 China also invented water. Before that, everyone died of dehydration shortly after birth. They also invented lying about inventing everything.
The veins in our body also have these valves to prevent the blood from flowing back o the organ
Yah, a very similar valve is there in the human heart. I should have included it.
maybe that's how Leo came with this idea. You know he was into human anatomy too.
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I just randomly came across this channel with this first video. It seems like those simple informative videos that were made in the early 2000's that I was shown as a kid, It is much appreciated!
What about water leakage at the hinge posts? Do those have the same type of step as the ground?
They automatically get sealed like the middle V as the doors in our house do... or by cementing it (maybe solidifying earth at Leo's times)
@@tilak09 They would use cement in da Vinci's times as well. Why wouldn't they?
What prevents leakage at the hinges?
Nothing really, except well designed components.
A certain amount of leakage is acceptable in most canal systems.
The hinges are placed into the wall, so the wall at the sides prevents leakage
no leakage would mean overflow of the river
@@iuer4643 true, although the Panama canal uses pipes to transport excess water to a reservoir they can use to pump water into the chambers for future use
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I was already to comment about the difficulty in how the two gates meet in the middle when closing, but the step at the bottom solves that. Brilliant!
Yes such a genius design
Bro was just on creative mode
"Have you ever noticed why the Panama lock gates have narrow edges?" Yes, I always wonder that when I cross the oceans daily on my way to work.
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I was wondering how you make a seal around the hinge that rotates? Is it rubbing against the edge all the time?
I was also thinking exactly the same.
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I have been around miter lock operations most of my life and have yet to see one that is watertight, no matter the level on the upstream side. It is theoretically possible, of course, with the right sealing materials installed, but in practice, that free joint in the middle is not constructed _that_ perfectly no matter how much pressure is applied. The leakage is generally not significant, so it is still the most useful design, but It is a very different construction type than, say, a precision airlock on a space capsule.
I was a tow boat deckhand, can confirm. The joint is always leaking water, just not enough to cause an issue.
I drove by a canal once and I cannot confirm or deny any of this
I used to be a miter lock door. I will not confirm or deny the claim at this time. I will be contacting a lawyer for assistance. 😛
yeah watertight is a bit of a superfluous detail. truly watertight mostly comes down to a matter of maintenance since a soft rubber could seal completely but would require regular replacement since every time the join flexes under the pressure cracking and wear also grows in the material. The real trick is that the pressure on that joint is able to be so large you can use quite hard materials as the seal (such as steel or other metals) which have much more favourable wear characteristics compared to most water sealing materials. The pressure also helps to reduce tolerances for things like squareness of the two doors and surface roughness at the joint (though they do still have a pretty tight tolerance for straightness at the meeting edge and parallelness of the two meeting faces)
In leonardo's time of course they didn't have so many options for materials and the only options for a water seal for that use case would have been wood or a soft metal like copper which means high pressure joints were the only option available to stop a notable leak. Nowadays most locks play with the wiggle room that a small leak is perfectly tolerable in their use case and so they leverage that to reduce maintenance costs meaning most do still let some water through
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The sealing of the miter joint and the bottom is explained, but what about the sealing between the hinged edges and the walls?
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OMG I saw this when I was studying in Scotland. I was fascinated by it and to know that this creation was hundreds of years old is astonishing
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and how do you prevent leakage at the sluice valves and how do you control them
Exactly. And the gate hinges too, don't understand how those don't leak.
Leak is negligible
@@DrZygote214 watch the video maybe ?
I would assume they just missed the part where leakage was negligible. No reason to be snarky. @@ioye-m4d
What about the leakage on both the edges of the gate and how do they prevent ??
The leaking is easy to compensate for in any canal or waterways
Cooollll, the graphic and explanation is so easy to follow through and understand!! Thanks so much!! :)
Question, you miss something, how do you open the sloose gate and close it again once the water at equal height? What if the water was too deep? Do the operator has to dive to close the small sloose door again? I'm asking about the manual medieval version.
How were the sluice valves opened from land in Leonardo’s model? Or did someone have to go down into the river area to manually open them?
And why didn't they leak, seeing as the video already stated that was a problem for this type of mechanism?
I was wondering the exact same thing, he just quickly glanced through that part.
The same hydrostatic pressures that would make it impossible to open the doors would also make it impossible to open the valves?
@@AK-rx6hv Small valves have very little surface area so the pressure being applied to them by the water column is minimal.
@@drworm5007 These systems always have a small amount of leakage, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't amount to much more than a dripping faucet in a bathtub. It is of virtually no consequence to a system that pumps such massive amounts of water.
It's so interesting when people find ways to use natural forces against itself. There was a relatively new invention just recently, it's basically a sturdy piece of plastic shape like an L, long end face down, so when water goes over it, the weight of the water will push the long side down, forcing the shorter end to stay up and using gravity to create a very strong barrier for water. They use it as an emergency barrier to block areas from flooding, since they stack nicely and are easy to deploy, like traffic cones. Better than sandbags, and at a fraction of the weight, plus much less time spent setting it up instead of digging a ditch or piling dirt.
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How is water tightness achieved around the hinges of the gate? Is it similar to the bottom?
Thank you for this amazing demo
I finally know how they seal the bottom. It always bothered me how they seal the bottom
1:34 But how do you open those?
You ask questions early my dude
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I agree with the person in comments who already said this - "Great Video, superb animation and narration".
Amazing. Just one question. What about the point between the gate and the wall? how is that water tight?
01:37 So how do you open that small wooden sluice gates? Wouldn’t the pressure be the same? They open towards the high pressure side.
Same question
When opening the gates, it seems all the pressure is going against opening the gate.
The sluice gates don't get as much resistance because:
-They're smaller: less surface means less force resisting it
-They have to move less distance
-Pressure won't be that detrimental to the gates. One part of them opens towards the water, which will be resisted. However, the other part of the gate moves AWAY from the water flow, so it's actually assisted by the water.
I've lived in several places along the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. I can walk to one of them in 5 minutes. Most of those locks operate on these same principles, taking into account modernization of machinery and maintenance. It is a 386 km route with 45 locks. Also it's through some of the prettiest scenery available in central Ontario. The same can be said for the Rideau Canal system locations. That one is just over 200 km in total, using 29 locks.
Because they are no longer of use by commercial boating, and are for recreational boating, the staff are super accommodating to explain how everything works. It's simpler than I first imagined. Brilliant use of the water to do the work.
1:39 How did they "open the sluice valves" at the bottom of the gates?
@Lesics.. I don't see a way to do it, and I think it's better to show the answer to all, anyway.
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i like how clearly it's presented and explained
Thank you for this great video! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Leonardo da Vinci was a genus. I can be creative, but he takes it to a whole new level. Practical thinking. Did you know that he even made the first robot? It was like a car that would wind up. He could program it do a set of commands as it moved along. Simple pre-loaded commands like. Going down 50 feet. Turn right and go down 20 and so on. He used ropes that were cut to lengths that would correspond with the distance he wanted it to move.
It was all fascinating.
So in addition to being a ninja, he also designed the Panama Canal gates. Damn, this turtle be putting humans to shame.
Very cool. Thanks for explaining this 😊
how is it made water tight on thje sea floor? Wouldnt all the crud along the bottom cause the door to be jammed, requireing it to be lifted from there?
Amazing combination between visualization and commentary! Very well done! You just got an other sub😊
I subbed, i found this amazingly educational despite me being an ADHD person, i understood it very easily, with the clear, 3D models.
So smart ! My mind is blown
But you said it had small gates in the lower part, so that water could drain. How are those operated?
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why water level differ ? do ships travelling on above sea level ?
Woww, this is an detailed video, loved your efforts
Thanks for improving our knowledge
1:36 so how do u open that?
Likely a pulley
This video answer so many questions I never asked 👍
Amazing video, totally got me subscribed
Great explainer. You mentioned the sluice doors but then nothing more on them, though. How do they open, close, not leak?
great mechanics, great explanation, thank you :D
I love when something in a clever way is created to work with the forces & situations it's naturally going to experience & battle against.
This video is incredible!
Great video, thanks for sharing.
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Great video. I am wondering if water flows both sides like in panama canal during tide differences, would nt the water pulls it open? I think better design was diamond lock (2 mitre gates facing each other - like that 2 sets forming a levelling chamber in between) instead 2 parallel parallel mitre gates. (Your suggestions are most welcome, as an Irrigation engineer I confused whether to go ahead with a two mitre locks or diamond lock for a proposed site)
How would one open the slues valves? would you do it from the dry side of the gate or what?
The gate paddles (that's what they're called) are on the upper side or inside the gates so they can be sealed by the water pressure. They're tiny compared to the gates so lifting them to let the water through is a trivial task compared to operating the big gate.
How to open the valves in Sir Leonardo’s design? How to prevent leakages in these points which should be weak.
You don't need to go to the Panama canal to see this. The nearest modern style canal will suffice. Here in Sweden some 10 km:s north of me, we have Göta canal: only a minor tourist canal, indeed, but every lock is of this type.
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How was the space between the door and the wall where the hinges are made watertight? Couldn't the water escape there?
You see this title format a lot, I wonder how much Leonardo da Vinci actually ended up changing history.
How can you open the small valves of the miter lock on the wooden gates? In the video they are shown like the water will push them open already
This Leonardo guy sounds like a smart fella, maybe he will be famous someday.
This is really nice explanation
Cool but what prevents leakage at hinge (pivot) side?
What measures are taken to prevent corrosion of doors...
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Okay thank you. Titanium doors are used instead of steel
How long do you have to wait for the water to be level after opening the slots at the bottom in ancient time?
It's used in Northern Germany, Danmark and the Netherland in the creation of new lamd from the sea. Your main problem when living under the sea level is what you do with rain water since it can't flow out.
It's possible though with the tidal range with this doors you let the water flow out in ebb and stop the water when it flows back when the flood comes. It's also the way to get the land dry in the first place.
This was great to watch and da Vinci was certainly a gifted artist, engineer, etc.
During the video I got a memory trigger of something else that always intrigued me in terms of achieving a water-tight seal in order to hold back a large body of water. That is, the door/seal system on a dock, or dry-dock, to be precise. We've all seen a picture of a vessel in a dry-dock under construction, or in for maintenance, cleaning, etc. Here, the fluid dynamics seem in contrast to that of a river flow, pushing against the angled gate faces, using the flow force to achieve the seal (as shown in the video). Instead, the sea is 'flat' against the dock gate.
How is this achieved safely and reliably, anyone?
Thanks.
Are sluice valves open automatically by water or manually by human?, After it open, how we close it?
How is it sealed / leakage controlled at the hinges?
This is so awesome and simple
That’s was really interesting, thanks!
great video i´m from Panama 👍
Good work lesics
It's helpful for me, thanks.
How do you open the sluice gates at the bottom though? Why skip the important detail
so, how did they open the slouce valves then, to level out the water level?
How do they keep the bottom doors closed or opened efficiently?
How do you make sure the doors close at the same time? It seems like if they didn’t meet each other at the right angle and time then they would be folded the wrong direction
Probably because of the steps. They can't go further back than they're supposed to, so even if one door was closing faster, it would stop at the build-in step and the other door will thus aling perfectly.
How was the gate sealed against the wall of the canal? Same method?
I'll like to know the torque of the motor mechanism which operate the 730tons doors.
I travel the Trent/Severn waterways each summer . This was built in between 1830 and 1901 . They still use this style of gate. They can leak on occasion but solid. They change out the timbers when needed ,but really an amazing feat of engineering
Amazing visual 😍
Seeing the locks be a one man operation was great. Science!
How do you seal the edges against the walls ?
Great explanation!
How do they open the sluice valves?
0:25 TWO V-shaped gates? How about no
Why not?
Plz with which software you make these types of videos regard thanx
simple yet brilliant.
Unfortunately I don't think we can have renaissance men like Leonardo anymore, as the human knowledge have become so great, that no single human can know it all
NO, it is possible; you have fallen into the trap of thinking that you must hyperspecialize. You could easily become an engineer that researches physics that paints masterful paintings and makes life like sculptures. I, for one, have taught myself a bunch of musical instruments, drawing and painting, and physics & mathematics
Sounds like you just want an excuse to not try to become a master of such things
@@pyropulseIXXI what I am saying is that it is impossible to be a master of all.
One can be a master of one thing and good of many, but the world is so complex now that we need to specialise if we want to truly master anything, and only the brightest of the bright can even do that
Neither was Leonardo master of all. What made Leonardo different is that he was not yet subject to the division of labor and hyperspecialization that now governs society. His intellectual ability was that of similar people in his position. Polymaths weren't that uncommon during the peak of the Italian Renaissance as the Nobility, the Church and Merchants were all in constant struggle to control society and thus neither ultimately controlled it fully. This allowed sufficiently wealthy people to study and practice as they saw fit or needed rather than prostitute themselves to one particular task for the benefit of one of these sectors for the rest of their lives.
We could have Renaissance men again without much issue, the point of technology and knowledge is that it ultimately makes people more productive than the generations prior. You don't need to reinvent the gear or deduce Archimedes' law from scratch. Leonardo took a lifetime to reach his peak in art and material science because he had to collect that knowledge through experience and collecting rare books. Nowadays it only takes a few years for someone to match him, granted one has the resources, time and access to knowledge to do it, which is rare.
The promise of the industrial revolution and the Renaissance were that. No longer would you have to dedicate most of your life to tending to your crops as a peasant or serving your guild master as an apprentice. Mechanization would mean less work hours and more studying to improve society further. Unfortunately, the rulers simply saw mechanization as a way to make their lifestyle cheaper and more plentiful.
@@siraethelwulf8914 I am not sure completely what thy point is.
Was it that powers were divided between multiple factions back then and today its not?
Because we may call them something else but it is still basically the nobility (old money) the merchant (new money) and the church (moral crusaders) who are in charge.
Is it that there aren't people with the resources to just dedicate their lives to studying different subjects, because we have plenty of that. We don't even have to be rich anymore. Its just, most choose to spend their leisure time watching tv or writing dumb comments on youtube (I am referring mostly to myself here) then they are to pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.
Because that is why I think we can't have polymaths anymore, a polymath is someone who is an expert, someone who have contributed something important to human knowledge in several fields.
A Renaissance man is different from being a jack of all trade, because a Renaissance man is a master in many crafts, while a jack of all trades are competent in many but master in none
maybe he was reincarnated into someone brilliant in industrial era, for example Einstein or Tesla?
Cool engineering, had never heard of miter locks before this.
You've been such a great educator over the years, it's time to give something back so you can keep teaching others into the future
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The machine shop where I do NDT supplied the Corp of Engineers with HUGE gears and transmissions for a dam in Kentucky. A lot of work when into them.