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	Inclined plane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The inclined plane permits one to overcome a large resistance by applying a relatively small force through a longer distance than the load is to be raised.
		The most canonical example of an inclined plane is a sloped surface; for example a roadway to bridge a height difference.
		The ramp or inclined plane was useful in building early stone edifices, roads and aqueducts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inclined_plane (809 words)

	Canal inclined plane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An inclined plane is quicker, and wastes less water, than a flight of canal locks, but is more costly to install and run.
		The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Washington, D.C. later had an inclined plane built to move boats into the Potomac River so that they could bypass Georgetown which was becoming congested with traffic.
		There are also inclined planes without a tank or caisson, instead carrying vessels up out of the water cradled in slings or resting on their keels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canal_inclined_plane (502 words)

	inclined plane - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The inclined plane is used to reduce the force necessary to overcome the force of gravity when elevating or lowering a heavy object.
		It is important in the history of science, engineering and technology for a variety of reasons: The ramp or inclined plane was useful in building early stone edifices, in roads and aqueducts, and military assault of fortified positions.
		Experiments with inclined planes helped early physicists such as Galileo Galilei quantify the behavior of nature with respect to gravity, mass, acceleration, etc. Detailed understanding of inclined planes and their use helped lead to the understanding of how vector quantities such as forces can be usefully decomposed and manipulated mathematically.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/inclined-plane (514 words)

	Inclined plane
		An inclined plane is a ramp that reduces the force necessary to overcome the force of gravity when changing the elevation of mass in a gravitational field.
		The ramp or inclined plane was useful in building early stone edifices, in roads and aquaducts, and military assault of fortified positions.
		Typically a canal inclined plane consists of a diagonal slope on which there are rails, and boats are raised between different levels by sailing into watertight "bathtub" type containers which have watertight doors at each end.
	www.fastload.org /in/Inclined_plane.html (447 words)

	NJ Canals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inclined planes were a method of overcoming a change of elevation by taking the canal boat out of water, putting it on a plane car on rails and pulling the plane car uphill with an iron cable.
		A watered section of the Morris Canal is visible in the center of the photo, taken on April 10, 2004.
		This plane was the 10th inclined plane east of Lake Hopatcong.
	www.njcanals.com (402 words)

	THE MORRIS CANAL AND ITS INCLINED PLANES. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The planes are in each case worked by a reaction waterwheel, and the levers for regulating the supply of water and for the control of the brakes are in a high tower, from which the man in charge can see the whole plane.
		The motion is rendered reversible by a clutch on the jack-shaft of the water-wheel.
		At Drakesville, for instance, the plane is 1,770 feet long from center of wheel pit to center of wheel pit; its total rise is 50 feet—grade 1 in 10; it requires 3,900 feet of cable to work it, and the total head on the wheel is 30 feet.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abnjmc.Html (2428 words)

	The International Canal Monuments List - Part IIa - Individual Structures
		A feature developed on French canals in the 17th century was the ground paddle, or sluice built into the stonework of the lock, which controlled the flow of water from the upper to the lower level.
		The Canal du Midi was the largest civil-engineering enterprise of its time and by 1661 a large 9.15m (30ft) span aqueduct had been built on its line at Répudre.
		On the Ellesmere Canal, near Pontcysyllte, the earlier Chirk Aqueduct had a cast-iron base to the water-channel, and Telford went on to advise a further group of three very large aqueducts with cast-iron channels on the Glasgow and Edinburgh Union Canal in Scotland (see the section on "Technologically significant canals").
	www.icomos.org /studies/canals2a.htm (11563 words)

	Inclined plane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An inclined plane is a ramp that reduces the necessary to overcome the force of gravity changing the elevation of mass in a field.
		Experiments with inclined planes helped early physicists as Galileo Galilei quantify the behavior of nature with to gravity mass acceleration etc.
		Detailed understanding of inclined planes and their helped lead to the understanding of how vector quantities such as forces can be decomposed and manipulated mathematically.
	www.freeglossary.com /Inclined_plane (347 words)

	Canal Mechanism
		At the lower end of the canal was erected an inclined plane, fifty-three feet in height, and two hundred and thirty in length; built of stone obtained in the neighbourhood.
		The machinery, by which the carriage was raised or lowered, consisted of a water-wheel, sixteen feet in diameter, on each side of the inclined plane; on the axis of which was wound a strong iron chain, formed like that of a watch, and fastened to the carriage.
		When the carriage was to be let down, a gate was opened at the bottom of the canal; and the water, passing through a sluice, turned these wheels, and thus slowly unwinding the chain, suffered the carriage to proceed to the foot of the plane by its own weight.
	www.bio.umass.edu /biology/conn.river/dwight'scanal.html (704 words)

	Duke of Bridgewater's Underground Canal at Worsley - Inclined Plane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The upper canal was however still maintained, and was not completely abandoned, in fact the rails for the the boat cradles were re-laid as late as 1819.
		The boat would be manouvered to the top of the slope or inclined plane and would be lowered down to the lower level on the carriage.
		The plane consists of two tunnels, one for the upward moving boat and one for the one going down.
	www.d.lane.btinternet.co.uk /canal2.htm (412 words)

	Whitford's History of New York Canals. Chapter II, Building the Erie.
		The laws of 1820 in regard to canals related chiefly to their government; the rights and conduct of boatmen and the general public were prescribed; the duty of collectors defined, and the canal commissioners empowered to establish rates of toll and to make regulations.
		Beyond the falls the canal bore to the south and conforming to the gradual descent of the ground, took a direct course to Albany where the junction with the Hudson was made, as well as another connection with this river opposite the City of Troy.
		The canal was locked down at the upper end of this interval land, so as to carry a cutting or excavation through the central portion of this interval, of one to six feet in depth.
	www.history.rochester.edu /canal/bib/whitford/1906/Chap02.html (17815 words)

	Funicular - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A funicular, also called funicular railway, inclined railway, inclined plane, or, in the United Kingdom, a cliff railway, is a system of transport in which cables attached to a tram-like vehicle on rails move it up and down a very steep slope.
		Examples of hydropower inclined plane railroads in the United States included the Allegheny Portage Railroad, part of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, built in 1834 with ten planes as the first railroad across the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania.
		Similarly, the Morris Canal in New Jersey connected the Delaware River with the Passaic River using 23 planes, as well as a series of locks along the gentler gradients.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Funicular (1078 words)

	Canals
		Susquehanna Canal, and a Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
		Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
		Seneca and Cauga lakes to the Erie Canal.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canals.html (7512 words)

	World Canals 1750-1799
		Canal proponent Elkanah Watson is born in New York.
		Canal engineer David Stanhope Bates is born on a farm between Morristown and Parsippany, New Jersey.
		Construction begins on the Blodgett Canal, bypassing the Amoskeag Falls of the Merrimack River, at Manchester, New Hampshire, and on Massachusetts' Middlesex Canal, between Lowell and Boston.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canal1750.html (1407 words)

	Inclined plane - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inclined plane - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The incline plane is also in contact with the massed block, and the contact causes friction.So the third vector is friction.
		Inclined plane, Examples of Inclined Planes, Ramps, Blade, History, Physics Incline Plane Problem, See also, Sources, Surfaces, Force, Classical mechanics and Introductory physics.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Incline (917 words)

	Inclined Plane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The canal boats sailed onto a cradle car and then a chain would pull them on tracks up the hill to the higher elevation.
		The plane at Port Colden, named Plane #6 W, was located on what is now known as Morris Canal Trail.
		Also, it was the first plane on the Morris Canal to change from chains to steel rope to pull the boats.
	www.warrennet.org /wtsd/tour/plane_6w.html (141 words)

	Incline Plane
		To encourage the growth of the canal as a profitable enterprise, the Canal Company encouraged more boats to ply its waters.
		The Canal Company realized that if those boats could somehow bypass Georgetown it would speed up the trip for the boats that were heading there.
		The boat, inside the caisson, would travel on the rails of an inclined plane from the canal and descend into the river.
	www.nps.gov /choh/History/Structures/InclinePlane.html (495 words)

	Morris Canal in Roxbury Township, New Jersey NJ
		Morris Canal in Roxbury Township, New Jersey NJ The Morris Canal in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey
		The Morris Canal was completed in 1830, and little hamlets sprung up along it's route to service the crews and teams of mules that pulled the boats laden with goods, particularly where there was an inclined plane which pulled the boats up the hills.
		The Canal Society of New Jersey is a committed group of volunteers who document the history of New Jersey's canals, seek to preserve the remnants thereof, and provide related educational materials.
	www.roxburynewjersey.com /canal.htm (1033 words)

	The Morris Canal - National Canal Museum - Hugh Moore Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The stone entrance archway of the Morris Canal is visible on the New Jersey shore directly opposite the Guard Lock of the Delaware Canal.
		During the 1850's and 1860's the original inclined plane water wheels were replaced with more efficient water turbines.
		Competition from railroads, however, eroded the canal's role as a coal carrier and in 1871, the Lehigh Valley Railroad secured a long term lease of the Morris Canal.
	www.canals.org /morris.htm (391 words)

	Foxton Canal Museum & Inclined Plane Trust - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and ...
		Foxton Canal Museum was opened in 1989 and is situated in the reconstructed Boiler House of the lift.
		They promoted a take-over by the Grand Junction Canal Company, and the “Thomas” lift was opened in 1900 to compete against the railways for traffic.
		The canal is now the Leicester Section of the Grand Union Canal, part of 4000 miles of the National waterways network.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/EM000083.html (641 words)

	Historical Illustrations
		The canal at Foxton is part of a north south link stretching from London to the river Trent.
		The Foxton Inclined Plane Trust was formed in 1980 and its ultimate aim is to restore the lift to working order.
		This section outlines the reasons for building the inclined plane (boat lift) and shows photographs of the plane in operation.
	www.ipresent.co.uk /foxton.html (388 words)

	The Morris Canal, Ron Rice, Webmaster
		A Scotch Reaction Turbine for an Inclined Plane
		Canal Society of New Jersey (CSNJ)- a Waterloo Village 1-page intro to the Morris Canal
		Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum- Locktender's House and model of Inclined Plane
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/4854 (174 words)

	Mass - RI
		It is intended to add index sheets for them in the future.
		Canals in blue and underlined have index sheets which are accessible by double clicking on the hyperlink.
		Hampshire and Hampden (the Massachusetts part of New Haven and Northampton Canal)
	www.americancanals.org /mass-ri.htm (121 words)

	Home
		News, History and Visitor information about the Inclined Plane, Locks and the local waterways
		is the voluntary organisation dedicated to the restoration of the Foxton Inclined Plane Boat Lift and the preservation of its history along with that of the associated waterways.
		* The aim of the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust is - "To restore the Lift to full working order and to preserve its history in relation to the local waterways".
	www.fipt.org.uk (82 words)

	Foxton Canal Museum & Inclined Plane Trust - Leicester City Guide venues & listings
		Foxton Canal Museum & Foxton Inclined Plane Trust, Middle Lock, Gumley Road, Foxton, Market Harborough, LE16 7RA, Leicestershire, England
		Adults £2.50 Concessions £2.00 children under 16 up to 3 acompanied by an adult, yong children must be acompanied by an adult.
		Follow in his footsteps with this trail from Leicester Tourist Information Centre.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /leicester/museum/EM000083.html?ixsid= (984 words)

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