#canal locks

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I saw Control Tower and Electric Mule perform live together at the Avalon Ballroom in Portland in probably 1967 or 1968.

From the photo album of my great uncle Lawrence Krettler's travels in the US Navy aboard the USS Altair 1923 - 1933 total mileage 85,020

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Tottenham Lock, Lea River Tottenham

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Oliver Pemsel (1910 - 1989), The Lock Gates, c.1935, oil on canvas, 65.5 x 54 cm.; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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Noël Spencer (British, 1900 - 1986), Landscape with Lock Gates, 1964, tempera on panel, 26.5 x 38 cm.; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

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The Panama Canal is more than a shortcut between oceans. It is a living hydraulic system — a giant body of water that breathes.

Powered almost entirely by gravity and freshwater, the canal lifts massive ships over a continent through a synchronized rhythm of locks, gates, and flowing water. Every transit is part of a delicate mechanical heartbeat sustained by rain, engineering, and balance.

Explored:

How the Panama Canal locks actually work

The hidden role of Gatun Lake

Why gravity powers the entire system

How millions of gallons of freshwater move ships between oceans

The canal’s “breathing” cycle of rising and falling water

The fragile balance that keeps global trade alive

From colossal concrete chambers to tropical freshwater ecosystems, this is the story of one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements — not as a machine, but as a living organism.

The canal takes a breath… and moves the world.

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canal lock

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The original Panama Canal locks

It’s interesting to learn that there are 12 locks in total, six on each separate transit lane in the Panama Canal, with three steps that rai

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Old locks, Iroquois, Ontario, part of the lock system on the St. Lawrence River. c. 1909. Glass plate negative, Marsden Kemp fonds, Archives of Ontario, I0012973.