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)
Completion of Canada's greatest engineering enterprise, the Welland ship canal
Contract Rec.
Contract Record and Engineering Review ; 44 , n 42
1930
29 pages
37 Figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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Welland ship canal project nears completion
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