Symposium on new $120,000,000 waterway over Niagara escarpment to connect Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and provide passage for largest lake ships; design of canal; description of seven lift locks and one guard lock; details of lock gates and lock operation; Chippewa Creek siphon; features of mitering gates weighing as much as 500 tons per leaf; timber unwatering gates; bridges over canal; how Welland Canal is lighted. (29 pp. between pp. 1285-1330)


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    Title :

    Completion of Canada's greatest engineering enterprise, the Welland ship canal


    Additional title:

    Contract Rec.



    Publication date :

    1930


    Size :

    29 pages


    Remarks:

    37 Figs.


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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