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Canals
Victor Seager Explain changes that took place in Canals during 1750 – 1900 Water transport was a lot quicker than road transport, the only problem was that rivers meandered and flooded, some places were too shallow for boats to go through. A lot of trade was done by sea, coal mainly came to London by sea. Before 1750 improvement schemes were planned but the rivers still flooded travelling by land with goods ment they would get damaged and broken. IN the 18th century the main rivers were; The River Themes, Dee, Trent, Severn, and Humber. Here is a table of when the canals opened: NAME AND LOCATION LENGTH (KM/MI) YEAR OPENED Baltic-White Sea, Russia 226.91 / 141.00 1933 Suez, Egypt 162.13 / 100.76 1869 Albert, Belgium 130.36 / 81.00 1939 Moscow, Russia 128.75 / 80.00 1937 Nord-Ostsee, Germany 96.56 / 60.00 1895 Göta, Sweden 86.91 / 54.00 1832 Panama, Panama 81.63 / 50.72 1914 Houston Ship Channel, United States 80.47 / 50.00 1914 Amsterdam-Rhine, Netherlands 62.76 / 39.00 1952 Manchester Ship Canal, England 57.13 / 35.50 1894 Chicago Sanitary and Ship, United States 48.28 / 30.00 1900 Welland Ship, Canada* 44.42 / 27.60 1932 Juliana, Netherlands 33.80 / 21.00 1934 Chesapeake-Delaware, United States 30.58 / 19.00 1829 North Sea-Amsterdam, Netherlands 28.97 / 18.00 1876 Cape Cod, United States 28.16 / 17.50 1914 Kronshtadt-Leningrad, Russia 27.36 / 17.00 1885 Lake Washington Ship, United States 12.88 / 8.00 1916 New O...
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