. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. miles long from deepwater to deep water; 40 miles long fromshore line to shore line; has a bottommaximum width of channel of 1,000 feetand a minimumbottom width ofchannel of 300feet; there aretwelve pairs oflocks of which theusable length is1,000 feet re- had not theintrepidSpanish adventurer himselfjust exacted fromthe Inca of Peru a ran-som fee of something like$18,000,000—so the mereexpense of such a projectwould not have been a deter-rent by any manner of what would Pizzaro say if hecould see the spacious waterway of to-daywith its
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. miles long from deepwater to deep water; 40 miles long fromshore line to shore line; has a bottommaximum width of channel of 1,000 feetand a minimumbottom width ofchannel of 300feet; there aretwelve pairs oflocks of which theusable length is1,000 feet re- had not theintrepidSpanish adventurer himselfjust exacted fromthe Inca of Peru a ran-som fee of something like$18,000,000—so the mereexpense of such a projectwould not have been a deter-rent by any manner of what would Pizzaro say if hecould see the spacious waterway of to-daywith its splendid harbor works at eitherend, grim lines of most modern fortifica-tions, and most wonderful of all, the cen-tralized electrical control system for thelocks, vessel towing, lighting and everyform of power for the entire canal and inall its works? The canal itself has been written aboutso often and described so thoroughly inthe daily press and magazines through-out the entire world that it is not theintention here to go over the ground 1. ControlBoard for the MirafloresLocks of the Panama Canal. Oneor Two Operators at These Boards HaveAbsolute Control of the Passage of a Ship through theLocks. By Electrical Control Levers They Let the Waterfrom One Chamber into Another, Swing the ImmenseGates, Raise and Lower Guard Chains; and all the TimeThey Watch the Indicators spectively with a width of 100 feet each;the Gatun lake area to the dam, of whichthe lift up is 85 feet, extends to 164 squaremiles; the channel depth of the GatunLake ranges from 45 to 85 feet and thedepth of water in the famous CulebraCut channel is 45 feet. As to the amountof excavation work and other such232 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1233 PACIFIC OCEAN
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