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From this point to the 1960s, the company began to focus more on the fast-growing pliers side of its business, developing improvements to the original design. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The word "Channellock" eventually became so synonymous with their product that the company changed its name to Channellock, Inc. in 1963 to capitalize on the popularity ...
The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal water levels. It was invented in the late 18th century as a solution to the problem posed by the excessive demand for water when conventional locks were used to raise and lower canal boats ...
Lock bumping is a trend in burglaries, [10] [11] as the technique can make it easy and fast to break into homes without needing too much special equipment or leaving any trace of forced entry. It works almost as well as having a key, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and a set of ten rapping keys can make the criminals capable of opening 90% of common tumbler locks.
The Eisenhower Locks in Massena, New York St. Lawrence Seaway St. Lawrence Seaway separated navigation channel near Montreal. The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth ...
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.
The locks themselves were made of 2,046,100 cu yd (1,564,000 m 3) of concrete. The quantity of material needed to construct the locks required extensive measures to be put in place to handle the stone and cement. Stone was brought from Portobelo to the Gatun locks, while the work on the Pacific side used stone quarried from Ancon Hill. [8]
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Flight of six locks, in a quite ornate setting and including the UK's second deepest lock, [1] two pumping stations and several Grade II listed buildings. Bingley Five Rise Locks: Leeds and Liverpool Canal: grid reference: These staircase locks are the steepest flight of locks in the UK, with a gradient of about 1:5. Bow Locks: River Lee Navigation