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139 relations: Agde Round Lock, Allier (river), American Journal of Archaeology, Bath Locks, Bedford, Berendrecht Lock, Bingley Five Rise Locks, Birmingham Canal Navigations, Boat, Boat lift, Bollène, Bruges, Burn (landform), Caisson (engineering), Caisson lock, Caledonian Canal, Cambridge, Camden Lock, Canal, Canal & River Trust, Canal du Midi, Canal inclined plane, Canal latéral à la Loire, Canal of the Pharaohs, Canal pound, Canal Safety Gates, Canal Saint-Denis, Canals of Amsterdam, Canals of the United Kingdom, Capstan (nautical), Caversham Lock, Channel (geography), Chenango Canal, Control lock, Dalmuir, Damme, Devizes, Dock, Dortmund–Ems Canal, Douro, Dream Pool Essays, Driffield Navigation, Droitwich Canal, Electricity, Elm, Engineer, Erie Canal, Eynsham, Eynsham Lock, Fish ladder, ... Expand index (89 more) »
- Canals
- Locks (water navigation)
- Types of gates
- Water transport infrastructure
Agde Round Lock
The Agde Round Lock (L'Écluse Ronde d'Agde) is a canal lock on the Canal du Midi that connects to the Hérault River in Agde, France.
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Allier (river)
The Allier (Alèir) is a river in central France.
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American Journal of Archaeology
The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts founded by the institute in 1885).
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Bath Locks
Bath Locks are a series of locks, now six locks, situated at the start of the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Bath, England.
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Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England.
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Berendrecht Lock
The Berendrecht Lock is the world's second-largest lock, providing access to the right-bank docks of the Port of Antwerp in Belgium.
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Bingley Five Rise Locks
Bingley Five-Rise Locks is a staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley.
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Birmingham Canal Navigations
Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country.
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Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of types and sizes, but generally smaller than a ship, which is distinguished by its larger size or capacity, its shape, or its ability to carry boats.
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Boat lift
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.
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Bollène
Bollène (Provençal: Bouleno) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
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Bruges
Bruges (Brugge; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
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Burn (landform)
In local usage, a burn is a kind of watercourse.
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Caisson (engineering)
In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (borrowed,, an augmentative of) is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.
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Caisson lock
The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal water levels. Lock (water navigation) and caisson lock are locks (water navigation).
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Caledonian Canal
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland.
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Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Camden Lock
Camden Lock is a small part of Camden Town, London Borough of Camden, England, which was formerly a wharf with stables on the Regent's Canal.
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Canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). Lock (water navigation) and Canal are canals and water transport infrastructure.
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Canal & River Trust
The Canal & River Trust (CRT), branded as Glandŵr Cymru in Wales, holds the guardianship of 2,000 miles of canals and rivers, together with reservoirs and a wide range of heritage buildings and structures, in England and Wales.
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Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi is a long canal in Southern France (le Midi).
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Canal inclined plane
An inclined plane is a type of cable railway used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels.
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Canal latéral à la Loire
The Canal latéral à la Loire ("canal parallel to the Loire") was constructed between 1827 and 1838 to connect the Canal de Briare at Briare and the Canal du Centre at Digoin, a distance of.
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Canal of the Pharaohs
The Canal of the Pharaohs, also called the Ancient Suez Canal or Necho's Canal, is the forerunner of the Suez Canal, constructed in ancient times and kept in use, with intermissions, until being closed in 767 AD for strategic reasons during a rebellion.
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Canal pound
A canal pound (from impound), reach, or level (American usage), is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Lock (water navigation) and canal pound are locks (water navigation).
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Canal Safety Gates
Canal safety gates or canal air raid protection gates are structures that were installed on canals specifically to reduce or prevent flood damage to dwellings, factories, etc. Lock (water navigation) and canal Safety Gates are water transport infrastructure.
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Canal Saint-Denis
The Canal Saint-Denis is a canal in Paris, France that is in length.
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Canals of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than of grachten (canals), about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.
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Canals of the United Kingdom
The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.
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Capstan (nautical)
A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to multiply the pulling force of seamen when hauling ropes, cables, and hawsers.
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Caversham Lock
Caversham Lock is a lock and main weir on the River Thames in England at Reading, Berkshire.
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Channel (geography)
In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait.
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Chenango Canal
The Chenango Canal was a towpath canal in central New York in the United States which linked the Susquehanna River to the Erie Canal.
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Control lock
A control lock, guard lock or stop lock differs from a normal canal lock in that its primary purpose is controlling variances in water level rather than raising or lowering vessels. Lock (water navigation) and control lock are locks (water navigation).
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Dalmuir
Dalmuir (Dail Mhoire) is an area northwest of Glasgow, Scotland, on the western side of Clydebank, and part of West Dunbartonshire Council Area.
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Damme
Damme is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, six kilometres northeast of Brugge (Bruges).
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Devizes
Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.
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Dock
The word dock in American English refers to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore).
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Dortmund–Ems Canal
The Dortmund–Ems Canal is a long canal in Germany between the inland port of the city of Dortmund and the seaport of Emden.
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Douro
The Douro (Duero; Mirandese: Douro ˈdowɾʊ; Durius) is the largest river of the Iberian Peninsula by discharge.
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Dream Pool Essays
The Dream Pool Essays (or Dream Torrent Essays) was an extensive book written by the Chinese polymath and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095), published in 1088 during the Song dynasty (960–1279) of China.
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Driffield Navigation
The Driffield Navigation is an waterway, through the heart of the Holderness Plain to the market town of Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Droitwich Canal
The Droitwich Canal is a synthesis of two canals in Worcestershire, England; the Droitwich Barge Canal and the Droitwich Junction Canal.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.
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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae.
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Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.
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Erie Canal
The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie.
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Eynsham
Eynsham is a village and civil parish in the West Oxfordshire district, in Oxfordshire, England, about north-west of Oxford and east of Witney.
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Eynsham Lock
Eynsham Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England.
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Fish ladder
A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as movements of potamodromous species.
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Flash lock
A flash lock is a type of lock for river or canal transport. Lock (water navigation) and flash lock are locks (water navigation).
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Floodgate
Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. Lock (water navigation) and Floodgate are water transport infrastructure.
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Forth and Clyde Canal
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands.
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Foxton Locks
Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough.
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Francesco I Sforza
Francesco I Sforza (23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
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Garston Lock
Garston Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal.
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George IV
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.
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Grand Canal (China)
The Grand Canal is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
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Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system.
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Grindley Brook
Grindley Brook is a small village in Shropshire, England, on the A41 trunk road around 1.5 miles north west of the market town of Whitchurch.
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Guillotine lock
A guillotine lock is a type of canal lock. Lock (water navigation) and guillotine lock are locks (water navigation).
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Hall Green Branch
The Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England.
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Hérault (river)
The Hérault (Erau) is a river in southern France.
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Hillmorton
Hillmorton is a suburb of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, around south-east of Rugby town centre, forming much of the eastern half of the town.
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Huai'an
Huai'an, formerly Huaiyin, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province in Eastern China.
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Hydraulic engineering
Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage.
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Hydraulics
Hydraulics is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
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IJmuiden sea lock
The IJmuiden sea lock (Dutch: zeesluis IJmuiden) serving Port of Amsterdam via the North Sea Canal is the largest lock in the world when considering dimensions.
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Irtysh
The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jesus Lock
Jesus Lock is a lock on the River Cam in the north of central Cambridge, England.
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
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Kendal
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.
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Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of, made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal.
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Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the Cheshire border.
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Kieldrecht Lock
The Kieldrecht Lock (Dutch: Kieldrechtsluis), referred to as the Deurgank Dock Lock (Dutch: Deurgankdoksluis) during construction, is the largest lock in the world when only considering water volume.
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Lancaster Canal
The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (historically in Westmorland).
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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List of canals by country
Canals are human-made structures, built for water control, flood prevention, irrigation, and water transport.
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List of waterways
This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries, lakes, or firths.
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Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. Lock (water navigation) and lock (water navigation) are canals, Chinese inventions, locks (water navigation), rivers, Song dynasty, types of gates and water transport infrastructure.
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Lockport, New York
Lockport is both a city and the town that surrounds it in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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Macclesfield Canal
The Macclesfield Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England.
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Münster
Münster (Mönster) is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
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Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London.
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Monkey Marsh Lock
Monkey Marsh Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, at Thatcham, Berkshire, England.
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Naviglio di Bereguardo
The Bereguardo Canal was a navigable canal, part of the Navigli system in Lombardy, Italy.
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Niagara Escarpment
The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that starts from the south shore of Lake Ontario westward, circumscribes the top of the Great Lakes Basin running from New York through Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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Nicholson Guides
The Nicholson Guides are a set of books originally published by Robert Nicholson Publications, then jointly by Bartholomew and the Ordnance Survey, and now by HarperCollins, as guides to the navigable and un-navigable waterways of England and Wales (and, more recently, Scotland).
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Oak
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.
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Oskemen
Oskemen (translit) or Ust-Kamenogorsk (Усть-Каменого́рск) is the largest city in the east of Kazakhstan and the administrative center of East Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan.
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Oxford Canal
The Oxford Canal is a narrowboat canal in southern central England linking the City of Oxford with the Coventry Canal at Hawkesbury (just north of Coventry and south of Bedworth) via Banbury and Rugby.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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Paw Paw Tunnel
The Paw Paw Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) in Allegany County, Maryland.
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Polymath
A polymath (lit; lit) or polyhistor (lit) is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
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Port of Amsterdam
The port of Amsterdam (Haven van Amsterdam) is an inland seaport in Amsterdam in North Holland, Netherlands.
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Port of Antwerp
The Port of Antwerp is the port of the city of Antwerp, Belgium.
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Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 284 to 246 BC.
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Regent's Canal
Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England.
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Rhône
The Rhône is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Rhine–Main–Danube Canal
The Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (German: Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal; also called Main-Danube Canal, RMD Canal or Europa Canal), is a canal in Bavaria, Germany.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. Lock (water navigation) and river are rivers.
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River Cam
The River Cam is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England.
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River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
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Rochdale Canal
The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain.
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Salmon
Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.
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Science and Civilisation in China
Science and Civilisation in China (1954–present) is an ongoing series of books about the history of science and technology in China published by Cambridge University Press.
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Shannon hydroelectric scheme
The Shannon hydroelectric Scheme was a major development by the Irish Free State in the 1920s to harness the power of the River Shannon.
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Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo (1031–1095) or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),Yao (2003), 544.
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Ship
A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.
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Ship canal
A ship canal is a canal especially intended to accommodate ships used on the oceans, seas, or lakes to which it is connected. Lock (water navigation) and ship canal are canals.
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Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet KCH FRS (20 May 1772 – 16 May 1828) was a British Army officer, Tory politician, publisher and inventor.
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Slipway
A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water.
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Sluice
A sluice is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level. Lock (water navigation) and sluice are canals and water transport infrastructure.
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Snakeholme Lock
Snakeholme Lock is a brick chamber canal lock on the Driffield Navigation, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Somerset Coal Canal
The Somerset Coal Canal (originally known as the Somersetshire Coal Canal) was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
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Stratford-upon-Avon Canal
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal is a canal in the south Midlands of England.
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Struncheon Hill Lock
Struncheon Hill Lock was built as a later addition to the Driffield Navigation in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
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Trent and Mersey Canal
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire in north-central England.
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Trout
Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.
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Tuel Lane Lock
Tuel Lane Lock is a canal lock, situated on the Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, England.
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Twenty-Four Histories
The Twenty-Four Histories, also known as the Orthodox Histories, are the Chinese official dynastic histories covering from the earliest dynasty in 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century.
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Vreeswijk
Vreeswijk is a former village and municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht.
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Water resources
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water.
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Water slope
A water slope (Pente d'eau) is a type of canal inclined plane built to carry boats from a canal or river at one elevation up or down to a canal or river at another elevation.
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Watercraft
A watercraft or waterborne vessel is any vehicle designed for travel across or through water bodies, such as a boat, ship, hovercraft, submersible or submarine.
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Watermill
A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.
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Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water.
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Watford Locks
Watford Locks is a group of seven locks on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal, in Northamptonshire, England, famous for the Watford Gap service area.
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Worcester and Birmingham Canal
The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is a canal linking Birmingham and Worcester in England.
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Xi River
The Xi River or Si-Kiang is the western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China.
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See also
Canals
- Aqueduct (water supply)
- Aqueducts
- Canal
- Canal restoration
- Canal tunnel
- Contour canal
- Embanking of the tidal Thames
- Gracht
- Junction (canal)
- King Abdullah Canal
- Kunstgraben
- Lateral canal
- Lists of canals
- Lock (water navigation)
- Martian canals
- Navigable aqueduct
- Power canal
- Rajkulo
- Roving bridge
- Ship canal
- Sluice
- Summit-level canal
- Tainter gate
- The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal
- Toll point
- Towpath
- Waste weir
- Winding hole
- World Canals Conference
Locks (water navigation)
- Balance lock
- Caisson (lock gate)
- Caisson lock
- Canal pound
- Classification of European Inland Waterways
- Control lock
- Flash lock
- Freycinet gauge
- Guillotine lock
- Lock (water navigation)
- Lock keeper
- Marala Headworks
- Naviduct
- Panama Canal locks
- Rasul Barrage
- Staircase locks
- Taunsa Barrage
- Weigh lock
Types of gates
- Airlock
- Automatic door
- Bar gate
- Bridge tower
- Bump gate
- Caisson (lock gate)
- Cave gate
- City gate
- Clapgate
- Clapper gates
- Door
- Doors
- ESD turnstile
- Electric gate
- Fortified gateway
- Gate (airport)
- Gate tower
- Gatehouse
- Gopuram
- Half tower
- Hampshire gate
- Jeongnang
- Kissing gate
- Lock (water navigation)
- Lychgate
- Mihashira Torii
- Optical turnstile
- Overthrow (structure)
- Paifang
- Portcullis
- Postern
- Propylaea
- Que (tower)
- Rambler gate
- Sally port
- Stile
- Tapsel gate
- Torana
- Torii
- Triumphal arch
- Triumphal arches
- Turnstile
- Water gate
- Wicket gate
- Yett
Water transport infrastructure
- Anchorage (maritime)
- Aqueduct (bridge)
- Boat lifts
- Canal
- Canal Safety Gates
- Canal basin
- Canal tunnel
- Canals
- Cavana
- Coal pier
- Flood barrier
- Floodgate
- Ford (crossing)
- Gracht
- Gulf Intracoastal Waterway West Closure Complex
- Gutzlaff Signal Tower
- History of the British canal system
- Lengthsman
- Lighthouses
- List of proposed canals
- Lock (water navigation)
- Marinas
- Marine Development
- Naviduct
- Piers
- Puddling (civil engineering)
- Roving bridge
- Scharhörnbake
- Signal station
- Single buoy mooring
- Sluice
- Staircase locks
- Summit-level canal
- Toll point
- Towpath
- Turning basin
- Wharves
- Winding hole
- Wing dam
- Yantan Ship Lift
References
Also known as Canal Lock, Canal locks, Dock gate, Double lock, Drop lock, Flight of locks, Gate (water transport), Lock (canal), Lock (river), Lock (ship), Lock (water transport), Lock (water), Lock (waterwat transport), Lock (waterway), Lock and dam, Lock chamber, Lock flight, Lock flights, Lock gate, Lock gates, Lock navigation, Lock paddle, Lock rise, Lock-chambers, Locks (canal), Locks (water transport), Mitre gate, Navigation lock, Pound lock, Sea lock, Shaft lock, Ship lock, Ship locks, Shiplock, Shipping lock, Sluse, Sluser, Staircase lock, Staircase locks, Stop lock, Twin lock.