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* The canal from the Nile River to the Red Sea, initially started but not completed by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II and repaired by the Persian king Darius I, is again repaired and made operational by Ptolemy II.
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He also found organisms in water from the canal next to his home in Delft.
They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.
The Agra canal originates from Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge.
At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal ; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.
The water for the canal must be provided from an external source like other streams or reservoirs.
Where such sources were unavailable, reservoirs-either separate from the canal or built into its course-and back pumping were used to provide the required water.
In other cases, water pumped from mines was used to feed the canal.
In certain cases, extensive " feeder canals " were built to bring water from sources located far from the canal.
The greatest stimulus to canal system building came from the Industrial Revolution with its need for cheap transport of unprecedented quantities of raw materials and manufactured items.
The Erie canal runs about from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie.
Among these was a large canal leading from the Rhine to the sea, as well as a road from Italy to Germany — both begun by his father, Drusus.
Sawmill owners used the canal to transport timber from Big Clam Lake to the mills and railroad sites — the G. R.
By 1827, construction on the Dayton-Cincinnati canal began as a way to better transport goods from Dayton to Cincinnati.
In the case of the ears, this is to keep grass seeds, dirt, and other matter from entering the ear canal.
The Mühlbach, a man made canal, which is diverted from the river Amper at the electrical power plant and runs parallel and flows back into it after passing the paper mill.
The name derives from the frequent mills in former times along the canal which took advantage of the decline between Mühlbach and Amper.
The government is also developing ports and infrastructure in La Union in the east of the country, in order to use the area as a " dry canal " for transporting goods from Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean to Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean in the north.
canal from Russia ( the original agreement with the Soviet Union dates to 1963 ).
Von Platen himself extolled the modernising virtues of the canal in 1806, claiming that mining, agriculture and other industries would benefit from " a navigation way through the country.
Much of the expertise and equipment had to be acquired from abroad, notably from Britain, whose canal system was the most advanced in the world at that time.
The canal enabled vessels travelling to or from the Baltic Sea to bypass the Øresund and so evade the Danish toll.
canal and Nile
In Egypt, canals date back at least to the time of Pepi I Meryre ( reigned 2332 – 2283 BC ), who ordered a canal built to bypass the cataract on the Nile near Aswan.
The legendary Sesostris ( likely either Pharaoh Senusret II or Senusret III of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt ) is suggested to have perhaps started work on an ancient canal joining the River Nile with the Red Sea ( 1897 BC – 1839 BC ).
The canal left the Nile at Bubastis.
Coupled with persistent accumulations of Nile silt, maintenance and repair of Ptolemy's canal became increasingly cumbersome over each passing century.
Two hundred years after the construction of Ptolemy's canal, Cleopatra seems to have had no west-east waterway passage, because the Pelusiac branch of the Nile River, which had fed Ptolemy's west-east canal, had by that time dwindled, being choked with silt.
This canal reportedly linked to the River Nile at Old Cairo and ended near modern Suez.
A geography treatise by Dicuil reports a conversation with an English monk, Fidelis, who had sailed on the canal from the Nile to the Red Sea during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the first half of the 8th century
Their findings, recorded in the Description de l ' Égypte, include detailed maps that depict the discovery of an ancient canal extending northward from the Red Sea and then westward toward the Nile.
Construction of the Suez Canal was preceded by cutting a small fresh-water canal from the Nile delta along Wadi Tumilat to the future canal, with a southern branch to Suez and a northern branch to Port Said.
* In order to maintain the Port of Alexandria, Trajan reopens the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea.
* 1380 BC: Amenhotep III connects the Nile and the Red Sea with a canal.
He had linked the Red Sea to the river Nile by building a canal which ran from modern Zaqāzīq to modern Suez.
* c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf ( current name ) is created when the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake ( now Lake Moeris ) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
* 1300 BC – Creation of canal linking the Nile delta to the Red Sea
At some point during his Syrian campaign, Necho II initiated but never completed the ambitious project of cutting a navigable canal from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the Red Sea.
In Egypt, canals date back to at least 2300 BCE, when a canal was built to bypass the cataract on the Nile near Aswan.
In the 7th century CE a town named " Kolzum " stood just north of the site of present-day Suez and served as eastern terminus of a canal built by Amr ibn al -' As linking the Nile River and the Red Sea.
There was a canal from the Nile delta to the Gulf of Suez in ancient times, when the gulf extended further north than it does today.
Senusret eventually placed his pyramid at the site of el-Lahun, near the junction of the Nile and the Fayuum's major irrigation canal, the Bahr Yussef.
Roorkee pass outs played a role in all the areas of engineering primarily civil, including maintenance of the Ganges canal, construction of dam and irrigation projects like Bhakra Nangal, the Rajasthan canal, the Aswan dam on the Nile in Egypt, and construction of Chandigarh.
Today, there is a canal connecting it to the Nile, which has made it an important port once again.
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