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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.
Mexico is undertaking an ambitious project - the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec - that could function as ...
More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.
Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...
Plans to build a “unique” home next to the Kennet & Avon Canal has divided councillors on Bath and North East Somerset ...
Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted ...
France is backing away from a recent commitment to intervene more forcefully at sea to stop small boats from crossing the ...
President Trump announced that he was imposing sanctions on Russia for the first time in his second term, underscoring his ...
A Bath family are hoping to get planning permission to build their own “unique” home by the Kennet & Avon Canal after living ...
Schenectady County will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal with a special stop by the Seneca Chief, a full-scale replica of the first canal boat to travel the historic route. The boat ...
Rapunzel’s slender tower will rise high above Storybook Land riders when Disneyland adds a new “Tangled” scene to the miniature world of fairy tale stories that will mark the biggest change to the ...
A heritage site in Stoke-on-Trent is appealing for volunteers to help maintain an old working narrowboat. Middleport Pottery is looking for people who can give two days of their time to help service ...