Volunteers said they hoped the move would help with restoration of the entire tunnel and canal system.

BBC: Butterley tunnel gets Scheduled Ancient Monument status

School researchers are trying to harness that energy through a new sensor that exploits the whole ear canal system.

ENGADGET: MIT ear-powered wireless sensor sustains its charge through sound

Recently FORBES took a boat ride on the river and its canal system.

FORBES: A most unromantic river

But they should also be persuaded that a successful and popular canal system is more in keeping with Britain's heritage than a collection of crumbling, forgotten waterways.

ECONOMIST: Canals

But Prof Cook said parts of the sea - and the whole canal system - froze at a time when canals were still being used to transport goods.

BBC: How different is the winter of 2010 from 1963?

Punjab's robust canal system offers the chance to reclaim much of the power (part of which comes from diesel-fueled generators) used to draw up irrigation water beyond that available from gravitational flow.

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If we look at any major infrastructure project, whether the Erie Canal, the interstate highway system, even NASA, we see that it was a new technology that solved old problems.

WHITEHOUSE: A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

And its system of locks restricts the Panama canal to vessels of a given beam, known in shipping as Panamax.

ECONOMIST: The Panama canal

And the question arises: If this is the way the Panamanians run their criminal-justice system, what hope is there for the canal?

CNN: The Canal Cronies

A. system on a cruise ship as it passed through the Panama Canal, and written on the history of bourbon whiskey and the making of Steinway pianos, among many, many other things.

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