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.

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.

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.

In other cases, water pumped from mines was used to feed the canal.

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.

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.

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 ).

Rapidly being modernized, the city's true center is west of the square across the adjacent Panlong River ( now more of a canal ), outside the Kunming Department Store at the Nanping Lu / Zhengyi Lu crossroads, a densely crowded shopping precinct packed with clothing and electronics stores.

The al-Basha water canal, built with stone blocks, still exists, but is not functioning ; the same is also true of an aqueduct.

Often considered to be the first " true " canal, it required the construction of an aqueduct to cross the River Irwell, one of the first of its kind.

He is remembered as the father of British inland navigation and commissioned the Bridgewater Canal, said to be the first true canal in Britain and the modern world.

He is famous as the originator of British inland navigation, the commissioner of the Bridgewater Canal — often said to be the first true canal in Britain and the modern world ( see below for a qualification )— which was built for him by James Brindley to service his coal mines at Worsley, in Lancashire.

The navigable canal from Worsley to Manchester which he projected for the transport of the coal obtained on his estates is usually cited as the first modern British canal ( as opposed to a river navigation )— though the Sankey Canal is a rival to this claim ( projected as a " navigation ", but built as a true canal ).

The proposal centres on the Bridgewater Canal, regarded as the first true canal which helped create the industrial revolution.

The Ringvaart ( Dutch meaning " ring canal ") is a true circular canal surrounding the Haarlemmermeer polder and forms the boundary of the Haarlemmermeer municipality.

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

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.

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.

Flattened anterior to posterior, the endocervical canal measures 7 to 8 mm at its widest in reproductive-aged women.

The Casiquiare is not a sluggish canal on a flat tableland, but a great, rapid river which, if its upper waters had not found contact with the Orinoco, perhaps by cutting back, would belong entirely to the Negro branch of the Amazon.

Below its tendon, the tendons of the long flexors pass through the tarsal canal.

Von Platen himself did not live to see the completion of the canal, having died shortly before its opening.

With its around 40 parks, forests and gardens, a couple of lakes, two rivers and one canal, Hanover offers a large variety of leisure activities.

Britain's canal network, together with its surviving mill buildings, is one of the most enduring features of the early Industrial Revolution to be seen in Britain.

During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

An artificial canal would then be cut across the narrow isthmus of Rivas ( its lowest point is above sea level ) to reach the Pacific Ocean at San Juan del Sur.

This caused concern about its possible effects on a Nicaraguan canal.

Nichols Panama Canal Collection at the Linda Hall Library Archival collection of maps, blueprints, photographs, letters, and other documents, collected by Aurin B. Nichols, an engineer who worked on the canal project through from 1899 until its completion.

) In the 20th century the northward extension of this ancient canal was discovered, extending from Lake Timsah to the Ballah Lakes, which was subsequently dated to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt by extrapolating the dates of ancient sites erected along its course.

By the 8th century, a navigable canal existed between Old Cairo and the Red Sea, but accounts vary as to who ordered its construction — either Trajan or ' Amr ibn al -' As, or Omar the Great.

Britain, however, feared that a canal open to everyone might interfere with its India trade and, therefore, preferred a connection by train from Alexandria via Cairo to Suez, which eventually was built by Stephenson.

The company was to operate the canal for 99 years from its opening.

The British government had opposed the project of the canal from the outset to its completion.

A railway on the west bank runs parallel to the canal for its entire length.

This is the most common cause of syringomyelia, where the anatomic abnormality causes the lower part of the cerebellum to protrude from its normal location in the back of the head into the cervical or neck portion of the spinal canal.

The 1, 400-kilometer canal, designed mainly for irrigation, is navigable for 450 kilometers from its Caspian terminus.

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.

# Injection: This may be performed under CT, flurosocopy / C-arm or ultrasound guidance where the pudendal nerve is identified in its canal ( where it is commonly compressed ).