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Before the advent of steamboats, boats and barges typically navigated canals using human or animal power. They were pulled along the banks by teams of horses or mules that walked on towpaths, or they were pushed using poles by crew members. Additionally, gravity could assist in moving boats downhill on sloped sections of canals, while locks were used to manage elevation changes.
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What is the name of the type of boat that travels on the Erie Canal?
3 types: passenger & cargo, packet, and freight boats. (derived from The Canal Society of Ohio (http://www.canalsocietyohio.org/)) Packets hauled passengers only.
What types of boats were used on the Erie and the Chemung Canal?
The Chemung Canal was very similar to the Erie Canal. It connected the Finger Lakes region of New York with the Susquehanna River. Both canals used barges or packet boats.
How did boats travel through the Erie Canal?
Water is a cheaper means of travel than overland. Mules would pull the barges against the current.
What type of boat is associated withe canals?
For work boats, the barges known as 'canal boats' were a typical mode of cargo transportation. For personal travel, the best known are the 'gondolas' (pole boats) as notably used in the water-based transportation of Venice, Italy.
What type of boat is most associated with canals?
For work boats, the barges known as 'canal boats' were a typical mode of cargo transportation. For personal travel, the best known are the 'gondolas' (pole boats) as notably used in the water-based transportation of Venice, Italy.
Which waterway was developed as a result of the invention of steamboats?
The Erie Canal
Which waterway was developed as a result of the invention of the steamboats?
The Erie Canal
Was most useful to traders using the canal and the Savannah River?
Steamboats
What was most useful to traders using the canal and the Savannah River?
Steamboats
Why was sit necessary to build the locks in the canal?
Locks are necessary to lift barges and canal narrow boats up or down through a series of lock gates. The water level at the start of a series of lock gates may be higher or lower than the water level at the other end of the lock gates. Without the retaining effect of lock gates, the canal would simply be dry in some lengths and wet in others.
When was Storybook Land Canal Boats created?
Storybook Land Canal Boats was created in 1994.
Which of the following was most useful to traders using the canal and the Savannah River?
Steamboats.
