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  2. Fish ladder - Wikipedia

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    Pool-and-weir fish ladder at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River Drone video of a fish way in Estonia, on the river Jägala FERC fish ladder safety sign. A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as ...

  3. Beechwood Dam - Wikipedia

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    A fish elevator helps migratory fish circumvent the head of the dam. A giant working floral clock sits nearby in a small park. [1] References. External links. Canada ...

  4. AquaDom - Wikipedia

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    The AquaDom (mixed Latin and German: 'water dome', more formally 'water cathedral') was a 25-metre-tall (82 ft) cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator inside the lobby of the Radisson Collection Hotel in the DomAquarée complex at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. [1]

  5. Holyoke Dam - Wikipedia

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    A photo showing an older flashboard system of the Holyoke Dam and the Canal System's original gatehouse. The river between Holyoke and South Hadley contained what was known as the "Great Falls" a natural 53-foot (16 m) drop in the river approximately 86 miles upstream of the Atlantic Ocean.

  6. List of Dirty Jobs episodes - Wikipedia

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    Second revisit of jobs involving tight spaces: inspecting abandoned mineshaft ("Abandoned Mine Plugger"), concrete truck cleaner ("Termite Controller"), cleaning a buoy ("Buoy Cleaner"), cleaning grinder sump pump on fish processing ship ("Floating Fish Factory"), cleaning elevator shaft ("Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple"), aerial tram maintenance ...

  7. Fishplate - Wikipedia

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    The name is derived from fish, [1] a wooden reinforcement of a "built-up" ship's mast that helped round out its desired profile. [2] The top and bottom faces taper inwards along their short dimensions to create an even alignment between the two rails when the fish plate is wedged into place by tightening its bolts during installation. [3]

  8. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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    A plan and side view of a generic, empty canal lock. A lock chamber separated from the rest of the canal by an upper pair and a lower pair of mitre gates.The gates in each pair close against each other at an 18° angle to approximate an arch against the water pressure on the "upstream" side of the gates when the water level on the "downstream" side is lower.

  9. Elevator - Wikipedia

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    At the Radisson Blu hotel in Berlin, Germany, the main elevator was surrounded by an aquarium; 82 feet tall, the aquarium contained more than a thousand different fish until it shattered in December 2022. The design offered views of the fish to people using the elevator. The special elevator was built by the German company GBH-Design GmbH [112]