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How Canal Locks Move Ships Across Mountains

From ancient waterways to the modern Panama Canal, locks remain one of the most ingenious engineering systems ever built.
Dropping in with her kayak at points along the Erie Canal, photographer Tina MacIntyre-Yee logged 60 miles of paddling in ...
Consisting of an intricate system of 83 locks, the canal made it possible to travel from Albany to ... The Erie Canalway is ...
The Panama Canal once connected the world - now it’s falling apart. After more than a century, the locks are breaking, the ...
X user @kmuee recently kicked off a heated debate on the platform after asking, “does anyone actually use their shift key to capitalize letters.” The insinuation here was that it’s somehow more normal ...
The Wilts and Berks Canal Trust has been working to restore 70 miles of canal and towpath running from the Melksham Link to north of Swindon. In a recent update on the progress of this project, the ...
The Panama Canal Authority plans to move ahead with construction and concession of two new port terminals, with an estimated investment of $2.6 billion.
Looking back at research from the 1990s and comparing it with today's data, David Rudlin explores the persistent failure of ...
Th Incline Plane is a proposed system for connecting Winsford Bottom Flash to the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.
A £65m housing scheme looking onto Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium has been completed as part of regeneration of the city’s Northern Docks. After almost three years, Torus has finalised work on the ...
The Panama Canal was a mammoth construction project that took a decade to complete and cost about $375 million — the equivalent of $11.8 billion today.
The towpath running along the Canal from Vines Park to Ladywood Lock in Salwarpe has finally reopened after months of work to make it ...