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Famous bridges, dams and canals from around the world |
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 | The Palmschleuse in Lauenburg is the oldest lock in Europe. It was built in 1398 along with the Strecknitz-Canal completely made of wood and had one (out of 15 locks that first watershed channel in the world of construction 1392-1398). Since the Middle Ages, the gate was also known under the name of key to Bockhorst. In the 17th Century, she got its present name after the former lock keepers P... |  | 11/01/2009 | 14 | 
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 | The Milvian (or Mulvian) Bridge (Italian: Ponte Molle or Ponte Milvio, Latin: Pons Milvius or Pons Mulvius) in northern Rome, Italy, is one of the most important bridges over the Tiber.
The bridge was built by consul Gaius Claudius Nero in 206 BC, after he had defeated the Carthaginan army in the Battle of the Metaurus. In 115 BC, consul Marcus Aemilius Scaurus built a new bridge... | | 10/17/2009 | 307 |
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 | The Alqueva dam is a dam located at the Guadiana river in the Alentejo region.
The reservoir is Portugal and Western Europe's largest.
The complex project was made to produce hydroelectric power, irrigation for farms in the surrounding area, as well as a large reservoir where several tourist ventures are also being built.
Alqueva, a village of about 350 inhabitant... | | 09/26/2009 | 33 |
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 | The third set of locks project is a plan to expand the Canal’s capacity composed of three integrated components: (1) the construction of two lock facilities – one on the Atlantic side and another on the Pacific
side – each with three chambers, each which include three water reutilization basins; (2) the excavation of new access channels to the new locks and the widening of existing navig... | | 09/19/2009 | 94 |
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 | The 25 de Abril Bridge
(Ponte 25 de Abril) is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left bank of the Tagus river.
It was inaugurated on August 6, 1966 and a train platform was added in 1999.
It is often compared to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA. (The same company constructed both bridge... | | 09/18/2009 | 71 |
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 | The original bridge, a steel cantilever bridge, was designed by Robinson & Steinman and dedicated on May 21, 1927. It cost $8 million to build and was the first major bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Upon completion of the 1927 bridge, the Lincoln Highway was rerouted over the span. The Lincoln Highway was the first road across America. Its original alignment from Sacram... | | 08/29/2009 | 52 |
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 | Sutong Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Yangtze River in People's Republic of China between Nantong and Changshu, a satellite city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province. With a span of 1,088 metres (3,570 ft), it is the cable-stayed bridge with the longest main span in the world. Its two side spans are 300 metres (984 ft) each, and there are also four small cable spans | | 08/18/2009 | 62 |
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 | It connects two enormous mountains of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. | | 07/19/2009 | 99 |
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 | the biggest Asian watercourse crossroads |  | 07/17/2009 | 243 |
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 | Shih-zi-ko Dam | | 07/17/2009 | 42 |
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 | The bridge is the longest trans-oceanic bridge in the world and connects the municipalities of Shanghai and Ningbo in Zhejiang province. Mid-way through the bridge, a service island will be built. It was opened to the public on May 1, 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou_Bay_Bridge | | 07/16/2009 | 87 |
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 | Stonecutters Bridge is a high level cable-stayed bridge which spans the Rambler Channel in Hong Kong, connecting Nam Wan Kok, Tsing Yi Island and Stonecutters Island. The bridge deck was completed on 7th April 2009[1], making this the second longest cable-stayed span in the world.
The approaches at Tsing Yi and Stonecutters Island are located near Container Terminal 9 and Contain... |  | 07/10/2009 | 683 |
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 | The Falkirk Wheel is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It is named after the nearby town of Falkirk in central Scotland. The two canals were previously connected by a series of 11 locks, but by the 1930s these had fallen into disuse, were filled in and the land built upon.
The Millennium Commission decided to regenerate the canals of ... | | 06/26/2009 | 363 |
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 | The Anderton Boat Lift near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in north-west England provides a 50 feet (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal.
Built in 1875, the boat lift was in use for over 100 years until it was closed due to corrosion in 1983. Restoration started in 2001 and the boat lift was re-opened in 2002.... | | 06/26/2009 | 74 |
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 | Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The sixteen locks seen here form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. (Look ... |  | 06/13/2009 | 350 |
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 | The River Nile, the worlds longest river, is a major north-flowing river in Africa. The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the former being the longer of the two. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source in southern Rwanda/northern Burund... | | 05/28/2009 | 725 |
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 | On 5/6/2009 this bridge was blown up in the city of Pittsburgh. It hasn't been used for an extended period of time but it was ready to collapse.
Here is a link to a slide show:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/19382612/detail.html
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 | What the Niagara Falls are for the USA and Canada is Trollhättan Falls for Sweden. But in smaller dimentions. But noisy as Niagara Falls.
In the years 1800, 1844 and 1916 locks were build to control the flow from the lake Vänern so boats could sail down to Kattegat. And to produce electricity.
The water falls 32 meters from 3 locks with 300 m3 water per second. Ori... | | 04/17/2009 | 346 |
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 | curly river in Brazil | | 03/18/2009 | 1,181 |
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 | Grand Coulee Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. In the United States, it is the largest electric power producing facility and the largest concrete structure. It is the fifth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. The top producing dams are the Three Gorges Dam in China, the Guri Dam in Venezuela, the Itaipu Dam on the border of ... | | 03/04/2009 | 292 |
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 | A combination transporter bridge/railroad. The trains drive over the top. | | 03/04/2009 | 220 |
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 | The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge (or simply Transporter Bridge) is the furthest downstream bridge across the River Tees, England. It connects Middlesbrough on the south bank to Port Clarence on the north bank. It is a transporter bridge, carrying a travelling 'car' or 'gondola' suspended from the bridge, across the river in 90 seconds. The cart can carry 200 people, 9 cars or 6 cars and one... | | 03/04/2009 | 128 |
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 | The river Rhine flows through Lake of Constance. He flows into in Hard, Austria. | | 03/02/2009 | 304 |
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 | Last week, was the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, in the little Spanish village of Ribadelago.
During the night of the 9th of January, 1959, the Dam "Vega de tera" suddenly broke due a deficiency structure. The 8 millions m3 of water of the artificial lake flood the village of Ribadelago, province of Zamora, Spain. Main part of the village was destroyed in less than one hou... | | 01/17/2009 | 470 |
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 | This circa 1937 build concrete bridge became exposed when the water level of Chesbro Reservoir was lowered (2007-2008) due to drought-like conditions. This bridge, which spans the original Llagas Creek, was abandoned when the Chesbro Dam was constructed around 1955 and the subsequent waters of the Llagas Creek was allowed to fill up the valley | | 01/14/2009 | 269 |
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