Morris Canal
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The Morris Canal was a 107-mile common carrier anthracite coal canal across northern New Jersey that connected the two industrial canals in Easton, Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River from its wes
Lock 3 West at Waterloo Village, New Jersey
Chromolithograph of the canal from 1900
Canal in 2018 at Waterloo Village
Scotch or reaction turbine taken from Inclined Plane 3 East on display at Hopatcong State Park. This turbine, running with 47 feet (14 m) head at 58 rpm, venting 90.6 second feet, gives 30% efficiency. Water goes in the bottom, and comes out the sides, relieving pressure on bearings.
Canal inclined plane
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An inclined plane is a type of boat lift cable railway used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels. Boats may be conveyed afloat, in caissons, or may be carried in cradles or
Morris Canal
…With a total elevation change of more than 900 feet (270 m), the canal was considered an ingenious technological marvel for its use of water-driven inclined planes, the first in the United States, to cross the northern New Jersey hills. It was built primarily to move coal to industrializing eastern cities that had…
Inclined plane on Marne–Rhine Canal with one caisson (the second caisson was never added)
Inclined plane of the Elbląg Canal with a cradle
The track of the Foxton Inclined Plane, which is no longer in use
Ronquières inclined plane