Canals came into being because the Industrial Revolution ( which began in Britain during the mid-18th century ) demanded an economic and reliable way to transport goods and commodities in large quantities.

The influential observer Eugène Antoniadi used the 83-cm ( 32. 6 inch ) aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory at the 1909 opposition of Mars and saw no canals, the outstanding photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi observatory also brought formal discredit to the Martian Canals theory in 1909, and the notion of canals began to fall out of favor.

A restoration group was formed in 1969, as part of a national drive by the Inland Waterways Association called Safeguarding Britain's Waterways, which led to the formation in 1973 of the Droitwich Canals Trust, a limited company with local authority support, which began to work towards the restoration of the canal.

Plans for its restoration began in 1975 and the forerunner to the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust was formed in 1989.

The first attempts at restoration began in 1974 with the formation of the Neath and Tennant Canals Society.

Starting in June 2007, Beatriz Canals ( WBFS's former weeknight co-anchor and WFOR reporter ) began co-anchoring on WFOR weeknights at 5 and 11.

Canals need to be level, and, while small irregularities in the lie of the land can be dealt with through cuttings and embankments, for larger deviations, other approaches have been adopted.

The department of Earth was to be in charge of Agriculture and the agricultural sciences, Fire was to be in charge of the Military, Water was the department of the Canals and waterways while Air seemed to have responsibility for everything else.

Canals were the first technology to allow bulk materials to be easily transported across the country, coal being a common commodity.

In yacht racing, a round-the-world route approximating a great circle would be quite impractical, particularly in a non-stop race where use of the Panama and Suez Canals would be impossible.

Canals could not be used in winter due to ice and floods, which caused damage that had to be repaired in the spring.

The Scottish Government however, decided the waterways in Scotland would not be part of the new charity, with British Waterways Scotland remaining a state-owned entity operating as Scottish Canals.

Canals were dug on both the north and the south banks to provide power to the factories that would soon be built on its banks as both mill owners and workers flocked to the city in droves.

This was not the original meeting point of the Grand Junction and Oxford Canals: the junction was moved in the course of improvements to the Oxford Canal in the 1830s, prior to which the junction was near where the marina is today, and where a third Horseley Ironworks bridge can be seen.

To accommodate drainage of and shipping on the tributaries of the IJ, such as the Spaarne, the Zaan, and the Nauerna Canal, nine auxiliary canals needed to be dug as well ( Side Canals " A " to " I ").

Canals were built through the city so that food supplies could be directly transported from the food-productive Yangtze plain to the farthest southwestern point of the empire.

Canals continued to be the primary commercial means of transport for Apsley's mills.

A canal should be placed in an appropriate: Category: Canals by country sub-category ; if none exist, then the canal should remain directly in this category.

Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available, a pumping station can be used to maintain the water level.

Although the scheme was deemed to be unviable, interest in restoration continued, and the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust ( LHCRT ) was formed to promote the restoration of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal.

Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available or sufficient, a pumping station, such as the one at Claverton, can be used to maintain the water level.

In fall 605, after the completion of the Tongji and Han Canals, Emperor Yang carried out the first of 11 ( counting military campaigns ) tours that he would eventually undertake of various parts of the empire, going to Jiangdu — the capital of Yang Province, where he had been commandant previously — on an imperial ship that was said to be sufficiently large and luxurious to serve as floating palaces.

The former port is to be regenerated as part of the canal restoration project by the Cotswold Canals Partnership.

They were eventually purchased, along with a length of the canal and the Wappenshall basin, by Telford and Wrekin Council, who are working with the Trust to allow repairs to the buildings to be undertaken, with the aim of providing a museum and heritage centre for the canal, a cafe, and offices for the Canals Trust.

No known publications in English, but a mention can be found on p. 34 – 35 of Hadfield's World Canals, 1986.

The three mills from the short can be seen in miniature on the Storybook Land Canals ride at Disneyland.

Having been built to connect the Peak Forest and Cromford Canals, the railways fortunes were closely tied with those of the canals.

The western arm, to the Severn, was built as the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, whilst the southern arm ( to the Thames ) traversed the Coventry and Oxford Canals.

Canals ( over which the battle was fought ) and pumping stations were built to remove the brackish water from the land which divided it into personal tracts with new stone houses for colonists from north Italy.

The British built a number of other canals ( Grenville, Chute-à-Blondeau and Carillon Canals, all along the Ottawa River ) as well as a number of forts ( Citadel Hill, La Citadelle, and Fort Henry ) to impede and deter any future American invasions of Canadian territory.

Canals, dykes and dams were built routing the water of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers around the marshes, instead of allowing water to move slowly through the marshland.

Canals, built within Moscow city limits, form a number of islands.

Canals were built along several of the valleys, to bring the iron down to the coast for shipping elsewhere.

In its original form, the project was meant to result in the third-largest canal ever built ( after the Panama and the Suez Canals ).

Although the junction and the canal to the south of it was built by the Trent and Mersey Canal company, the Coventry Canal later bought it back from them, and so it is indeed a junction between the Trent and Mersey and the Coventry Canals, although the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal retained control of their section, and so the historic Coventry Canal is in two parts.

Canals brought the first major change to transportation, and were usually built directly from the mines to city centres, such as the famous Bridgewater Canal in Manchester.

The original canal was built by wealthy Boston merchants who formed a limited liability corporation called the Proprietors of Locks and Canals, one of the first of its kind in the United States.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Peak Forest Canal Society and the Inland Waterways Association campaigned for the restoration of the Peak Forest and Ashton Canals, and they reopened on 1 April 1974.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century, and spurred the South Florida economy, prompting land development.

The drying of the lake lead to the creation of a network of canals, of which the Jamaica and La Viga Canals were most important from the colonial period to the early 20th century.