A hotelier has built a canal lock – complete with a narrowboat ... bought the 35ft long vessel on eBay for £5,000 and, single-handedly, fashioned a lock in which it could float.

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 stretch of the Caledonian Canal has been emptied of water to allow for lock gates to be replaced on the historic waterway. Scottish Canals has drained a 7,293m (23,927ft) long section in a ...