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.

Remnants of an ancient west-east canal, running through the ancient Egyptian cities of Bubastis, Pi-Ramesses, and Pithom were discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte and his cadre of engineers and cartographers in 1799.

Napoleon had contemplated the construction of another, modern, north-south canal to join the Mediterranean and Red Sea.

A canal ( Canal de Caen à la Mer ) parallel to the Orne was built during the reign of Napoleon III to link the city to the sea at all times.

The navy did not need to use the canal either, as Napoleon had been defeated at Waterloo in 1815, and the perceived threat to shipping when the canal was started was now gone.

During the following ten years, de Lesseps had to overcome the continuing opposition of the British government preventing the Sultan from approving the construction of the canal and at one stage, he even had to seek the support of his cousin, Empress Eugenie to persuade the Emperor Napoleon III to act as arbitrator in the disputes.

The canal and its Toledo sidecut entrance were completed in 1843 ; soon after the canal was functional, the canal boats became too large to use the shallow waters at the terminus in Manhattan.

While the towns were only a mile apart, Toledo grew by 359 % in ten years while Manhattan only grew by 148 % because of the change in the canal outlet.

The canal feeder at Port Jefferson was completed to Sidney by 1841, some 4 years before the Miami & Erie Canal was opened between Cincinnati and Toledo.

From the 1840s to 1913, canal boats carried Shelby County's products to Cincinnati or Toledo.

Mason was also upset by some inhabitants in the disputed area who wanted to belong to Ohio because of interest in the Toledo canal.

Grain shipments from farms in Ohio were loaded onto ships by elevators at Toledo ; these ships were unloaded by elevators at Buffalo that transshipped their grain to canal boats ( and, later, rail cars ), which were unloaded by elevators in Brooklyn, where the grain was either distributed to East Coast flour mills or loaded for further transshipment to England, the Netherlands or Germany.

The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination of four canals: the Miami and Erie Canal from the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction, Ohio to Terre Haute, Indiana, the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to Worthington, Indiana ( Point Commerce ), and the Central Canal from Worthington to Evansville, Indiana.

The Miami and Erie Canal was a canal that connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio with Lake Erie in Toledo, Ohio.

At Providence Metropark along the Maumee River just west of Toledo near Grand Rapids, Ohio, there is a historical reenactment of the Miami-Erie canal.

In later years this second canal would be extended all the way to the Maumee River at Toledo.

High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.

With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

Later, navigation was stopped in 1904 and the canal has since then, been exclusively used for irrigation purposes only.

At present the canal does not flow in district Gurgaon, but only in Faridabad, which was earlier a part of Gurgaon.

By far the longest canal was the Grand Canal of China, still the longest canal in the world today, and the oldest extant one.

The project began in 605 and was completed in 609, although much of the work combined older canals, the oldest section of the canal existing since at least 486 BC.

The first artificial canal in Christian Europe was the Fossa Carolina built at the end of the 8th century under personal supervision of Charlemagne.

It was constructed in 1639 to provide water power for mills. In Russia, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, a nationwide canal system connecting the Baltic and Caspian seas via the Neva and Volga rivers, was opened in 1718.

The most notable power canal was built in 1862 for the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company.

In France, a steady linking of all the river systems — Rhine, Rhône, Saône and Seine — and the North Sea was boosted in 1879 by the establishment of the Freycinet gauge, which specified the minimum size of locks so that canal traffic doubled in the first decades of the 20th century.

The canal was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not in the 1970s due to the phenomenon that in winter the canal freezes before the lakes and then after the lakes freeze, the canal thaws and remains unfrozen for the rest of the winter.

In their first major use at the Battle of Cambrai ( 1917 ), the plan was for a cavalry division to follow behind the tanks, however they were not able to cross a canal because a tank had broken the only bridge.

The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD.

In the 19th century, it was connected by a canal to the Berezina and Dnieper rivers ( canal is currently not functioning ).