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Record 1 2018-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Locks (Canals)
DEF

A device for transferring crafts from a section of a water-way to another at a different level by means of an inclined gutter replacing a system of waterlocks and using a mobile watergate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écluses
DEF

Variante d'un plan incliné. Deux bulldozers se trouvant de part et d'autre du canal incliné poussent à l'aide d'un masque l'eau (qui prend la forme d'un triangle rectangle) avec le bateau dessus, du niveau inférieur au niveau supérieur (et l'inverse).

DEF

Dispositif permettant de manœuvrer un convoi fluvial le long d'un plan incliné, à l'aide d'un bouclier-moteur qui constitue la paroi d'une écluse mobile.

Spanish

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