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Map of Poland showing rivers and canals showing the least number of canals and least number of canal miles in Europe
Tag: Canals
Transits of Panamax vessels through the newly enlarged Panama Canal
[TAP the link to start video] This documentary is an 11-minute compilation of the configuration of the new Panama Canal and how it will operate upon completion with the largest vessels in the world transiting through it, including the elimination of locomotives to pull the vessels through the canal system. The new operation will use [...]
How the Dutch protect against flooding
Two thousand years ago, the land was an alluvial plain. Over the next thousand years, the Dutch built dikes around the highest land. In more recent times, the Dutch added the familiar Windmill pumps, and today pumps dot the landscape of The Netherlands to remove water accumulated from the deadliest of storms. This particular set of [...]
Multi-purpose restaurant on one of Amsterdam’s canals
The Ancient Floating Gardens and Canals of Mexico City’s Xochomilco (“So-Cho-Mil-Co”) Part I
Predating the Hispanic Period and geographically south of the main capital city of Mexico was an ancient large lake called Lake Xochomilco. Over the centuries, beautiful flowers and agricultural products were grown above the water on tall stalks, anchored to trees and filled in the rich mulch and soils from the lake bottom. Eventually, early farmers [...]
Wanderlust Wednesday: The Venice of the North; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: the Venice of America.
The City of Fort Lauderdale has promoted itself as the 'Venice of America' for almost a century because of its more than one hundred miles of manmade and natural canals throughout the 36-square-mile city. But before it proclaimed itself the 'Venice of America' beginning in the 1920s, its weekly newspaper advertised the town on its masthead [...]
Commercial Acetylene Gas Generator, ca. 1905
In the short period of time between kerosene or oil lamps and electricity, many cities, towns, and villages, hotels and businesses throughout America relied upon the often dangerous acetylene gas generator. Such also was the case for canal dredges and excavators running day and night, twenty-four hours a day. The generators mixed calcium carbide and [...]
Commercial Acetylene Gas Generator, ca. 1905
In the short period of time between kerosene or oil lamps and electricity, many cities, towns, and villages, hotels and businesses throughout America relied upon the often dangerous acetylene gas generator. Such also was the case for canal dredges and excavators running day and night, twenty-four hours a day. The generators mixed calcium carbide and [...]
West Coast Business Leaders Urge Capitalizing on the Panama Canal
TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL Government, business leaders urge capitalizing on canal expansion Oct 30, 2014, 2:47pm EDT Wade Millward Former Florida Senator George LeMieux listens to the business panel at a global trade symposium Thursday. LeMieux, now with the Gunster law firm, gave the event's final presentation on the importance of global trade. Wade Millward [...]
The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York (1817-1825)
The construction of the wildly successful Erie Canal in the State of New York set off a new era of canal construction across America. For the first time, an inland waterway provided a connection between New York City on the Atlantic coast and cities along the shores of the Great Lakes like Chicago. The link [...]
Florida’s Big Dig 