But its most famous section was the Barton Aqueduct which took the canal over the River Irwin. The canal was a huge success as it made the duke a lot of money.
Other people saw the success of the Bridgewater Canal and decided to do likewise thus opening up Britain even more with a series of canals that linked the major industrial centres of Britain. Brindley designed and built nearly miles of canals. His biggest project was the Trent and Mersey canal which linked two major industrial areas of Britain.
He also found ways to get around certain natural problems which would make canals redundant. Canals had to be perfectly flat or else the water would simply run away. Likewise, the canals had to be waterproofed……. Brindley used an old process called puddling which lined the sides and bottom of a canal with clay mixed with water. He tried to go around hills where possible but if this was impossible he used locks to move a canal barge up or down before it returned to a flat level.
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Leave a gift in your Will Leave a gift in your Will and be remembered. Leave a gift in your Will Will you leave a gift in your Will to keep the canals and rivers you care about alive? The Chinese can claim that the Grand Canal of China was one of the first, in the tenth century, although even earlier examples existed in that country. The earliest canals were connected with natural rivers, either as short extensions or improvements to them. The difference between a natural river, and a wholly man-made canal is clear, but in between are many variations of river improvement and extension so it is therefore difficult to be precise about which navigation can claim to be the first canal!
The familiar pound lock which is in use today in Britain is said to have been invented by Chhiao Wei-Yo, in the year , in China, although the mitre gate, an important part of the canal lock today, is credited to Leonardo Da Vinci. A notable waterway completed in was the Exeter Canal which bypassed part of a river to make navigation easier. This had the first pound locks in Britain, equipped with lifting, vertical gates.
The mitre gate, which has V shaped gates held together by the water pressure, was introduced in this country on the River Lee, at Waltham Abbey. Some other early British canals are an improved section of the River Welland in Lincolnshire, built in , and the Stroudwater Navigation, in Gloucestershire, built - and the Sankey Canal in Lancashire, opened in stages, -
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