This article was originally published with the title “ How the Locks of the Panama Canal are Operated ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 110 No. 10 (March 1914), p. 205 doi:10.1038 ...

A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... get raised and lowered? The canal has a water lock system that acts like a massive ...

This animation of the locks system of the Panama Canal demonstrates how a ship would travel across the Panamanian Isthmus. This "lake and lock" canal was favored by Theodore Roosevelt, who Chief ...