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.

Canals are so deeply identified with Venice that many canal cities have been nicknamed " the Venice of …".

In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of Lowell's Locks and Canals company, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.

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.

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

This, along with the construction of the Bothwell and Hammond Canals, contributed to significant business development.

The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames ( similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat ), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish Canals and Rivers and along with Dara's dog ( Snip Nua ), an escapade travelling throughout the Mediterranean to Venice and most recently attempting to find a boat to take to the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, where in response to an ongoing challenge between Griff and Dara ( who had each secured a boat each and who refusing to give it up to use the others ) he secured the Nantucket Lightship to use.

The company traces its history back to 1860, with the publication by Henry Varnum Poor of History of Railroads and Canals in the United States.

The path is as follows: Bile canaliculi → Canals of Hering → interlobular bile ducts → intrahepatic bile ducts → left and right hepatic ducts merge to form → common hepatic duct exits liver and joins → cystic duct ( from gall bladder ) forming → common bile duct → joins with pancreatic duct → forming ampulla of Vater → enters duodenum

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.

Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.

It is now planned to restore these canals as a leisure facility by a partnership of Stroud District Council and the Cotswold Canals Trust with a multi-million pound Lottery grant.

Canals in the waters of Lake Xochimilco were initially created along with that of a kind of artificial agricultural plots called chinampas.

In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of the Locks and Canals company in the water-powered factory city of Lowell, Massachusetts, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.

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.

The project was planned to take two years, with both of the Droitwich Canals completely restored and re-opened in 2009.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > In 1935, the Department of Marine was merged with the Department of Railways and Canals and the Civil Aviation Branch of the Department of National Defence to form the Department of Transport, also known as Transport Canada.

In collaboration with Cuca Canals, he wrote the dialogue for Bigas Luna's Jamón, jamón.

In 1821 they bought the Proprietors of Locks and Canals and with it the water rights of the Merrimack River upstream from the Pawtucket Falls.

At Barcelona's School of Fine Arts, Torres García fell in with such future renowned painters as Joaquim Mir, Joaquim Sunyer, Ricard Canals and Isidre Nonell, all of whom were influenced by the popular French Impressionism of the moment, and by the writings of Émile Zola.

:: 2007-White River State Park partners with The Indiana Invaders, Indy Greenways, Indianapolis Parks & Canals, the National Institute for Fitness & Sport ( NIFS ), local and international businesses, and community partners to revitalize the flood plain greenspace along the White River for education, health, and recreation opportunities.

Surprisingly, Astrid Weller and even the whole town of Springfield is impressed with Homer's work, and enjoy the newly made " Grand Canals of Springfield " along with the swimming zoo animals.

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

The canaliculi join each other to form larger and larger structures, sometimes referred to as Canals of Hering, which themselves join to form small bile ductules that have an epithelial surface.

Despite this, they dredged 73, 000 tons of mud from the Droitwich Canals in 1881, and altered the upper cills of the locks in 1888-9, to give a navigable depth of.

In this role, Rogers suggested the use of hydraulic lift locks to the Minister of Railways and Canals, John Haggart, who commissioned him to travel to Europe to study existing boat lifts in France ( the Ascenseur à bateaux des Fontinettes ), Belgium ( Lifts on the old Canal du Centre ) and England ( the Anderton Boat Lift near Northwich in Cheshire ).

The Canals Trust and Newport City Council made a joint presentation to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £ 700, 000 to restore the next four locks of the flight, and this was granted on 23 March 2007.

The regeneration of the Cefn flight ( Fourteen Locks ) is a separate project from the main scheme ; contractors will work down the flight, while a voluntary team led by the Canals Trust and Waterway Recovery Group will work up from lock 3 on the Allt-yr-yn locks.

The company then decided they could get grants for widening the Foxton and Watford locks, and under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1931, bought the Leicester, the Loughborough and the Erewash Canals.

Canals were important for industrial development.

Canals, roads and railroads were constructed.

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

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

When the Derby and Nottingham Canals were completed by Jessop and Benjamin Outram in 1796, they provided direct routes to the important textile centres of Derby and Nottingham.

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.

The Erie and Champlain Canals were begun in 1817 and the section in Cohoes finished in 1823, they would impact Cohoes in every aspect, Cohoes was even known as Juncta because of this.

Canals were used for transportation or for irrigation.

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 were dug to facilitate the irrigation of agricultural lands throughout the empire.

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

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.

Following a February 24, 1906 fire, the Moncton shops were rebuilt at a new location at the insistence of the local Member of Parliament, Henry Emmerson, who was the Minister of Railways and Canals in Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's cabinet.

Despite this, in 1895, American astronomer Percival Lowell published his book Mars, followed by Mars and its Canals in 1906, proposing that the canals were the work of a long-gone civilization.

Canals and rivers were unavailable in the winter season due to freezing, but the railroads ran year-round despite poor weather.

The financial strain broke on March 7 when GTR defaulted on repayment of construction loans to the federal government, whereby the GTPR was nationalized and taken over by a Board of Management operating under the Department of Railways and Canals while legalities were resolved.

Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of the south of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.

Restoration plans were first voiced in 1975, and since 1990, the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Society have been actively engaged in excavating and rebuilding sections of the canal as they have become available.

Canals were also drained on the same day.